by Dan | Sep 8, 2019 | Improving Sentient Experience
The environment matters only insomuch as it is required to support sentient life. Granite, molten lava, clouds, and puddles all seem unlikely to be aware of themselves. If a granite planet the size of a billion earths was destroyed tomorrow in some far away and...
by Dan | Aug 21, 2018 | AI Policy and Governance, Improving Sentient Experience
The Shamefully Poor State of Human Wellbeing “For when he saw that almost all things necessarily required for subsistence, and which may render life comfortable, are already prepared to their hand, that men may abundantly attain wealth, honour, praise, may rejoice in...
by Dan | Aug 14, 2018 | Consciousness is What Counts, Improving Sentient Experience, The Good Must Be Explored
Both artificial intelligence and nuclear warheads could both wipe out human life, though it might be possible for superintelligent AI to be even more destructive. That being said, AI is more than an “existential risk.” It’s also a potential...
by Dan | Sep 16, 2014 | Consciousness is What Counts, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Improving Sentient Experience, Managing the Transhuman Transition, The Good Must Be Explored
The Aim of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology’s founder Dr. Martin Seligman has undertaken the “moon-shot” endeavor to have 51% of the human population psychologically flourishing by 2051. It’s an audacious goal intended to unite positive psychology’s forces in...
by Dan | Apr 14, 2014 | Consciousness is What Counts, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Improving Sentient Experience, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
In the coming decades ahead, we’ll likely augment our minds and explore not only a different kind of “human experience”, we’ll likely explore the further reaches of sentience and intelligence itself, and it’s a process that I believe is...
by Dan | Jun 9, 2013 | Consciousness is What Counts, Improving Sentient Experience, Interviews with Philosophers
David Pearce is an Oxford philosopher and one of the world’s most prominent proponents of utilitarianism. His work and writing on transhumanism (and involvement with organizations like the IEET) has also lead him to be recognized as the possibly most recognized...
