David Pearce recently wrote 1001 books (well, mostly covers, and the ones with text, perhaps with a little help from LLMs).

Which book should he write next?

David Pearce

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Here's the manifesto of the Transhumanist who believes that every one of the 2.13 million species on earth should be bio-tech re-engineered to no longer experiences suffering by killing & eating each other.

'The Abolitionist Project' by David Pearce. hedweb.com/abolitionist-p…

Here at the USTP we are simple people - we see a new David Pearce interview, and we go watch. Check it out! This time he’s talking with our friends at the @ForesightInst!

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This post from David Pearce is still legendary

Context: Eliezer sets out his theory of consciousness in a Facebook post, followed by a debate in the comments about animal consciousness. It's like the Super Bowl.

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When deciding what to do, we should ask what we would do if all the problems in the world — all the suffering, all the injustice, and all the looming threats — were right there in front of us.

I’ve a new essay in the Guardian explaining this more.

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A new generation of animal welfare activists argue that U.S. state bystander laws give them the right to save animals in distress—including those in factory farms
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Is suffering truly an unavoidable aspect of life, or can we create a world devoid of it?

For as long as we have lived, humanity has always accepted suffering as part of the human condition. Entire dogmas and philosophies have been built on this belief. Literature itself, and the…

Is Hanson on the verge of being information-sensitive-gradients-of-bliss-pilled?

See: hedweb.com/north-south.ht…

David Pearce

Imagine being a teenager discovering the internet and the first website you find is written like this:

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FarmingUK Pigs are as sentient as small children.
What humans do to pigs is a crime on a par with the Holocaust.
Civilization will be vegan.

Egyptian Bronzepunk

The strongest men are the ones with compassion.

New podcast episode is out! Fascinating discussion on superintelligence. Anyone interested in #AI or #transhumanism should check it out. Wisdom from Bradon Allenby David Pearce Calum Chace Dr. Émile P. Torres Prof. Dr Beth Singler. James Hughes
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This is still a must-read for _any_ ethically serious thinker.

David Pearce was _seriously_ ahead of his time in 1995.

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A future without suffering - A mention of David Pearce thinking... I'm hopeful anyone weighing in can do so thoughtfully and respectfully🙏

A future without suffering continued:

Genocide is happening right in front of our eyes and on our plates.

The longer we avert our eyes to remain comfortable and hide from the #truth , the more difficult it will be for humanity to ever achieve peace.

Please choose compassion. Please go #vegan 🙏❤️

roon Real technological progress will recalibrate the hedonic treadmill. Posthuman hedonic set-points will be orders of magnitude higher _without_ compromising the information-signalling function of hedonic gradients.
The pleasure-pain axis can become a pleasure-superpleasure axis.