Infinite Bliss

Unofficial Hedweb account. The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

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RT @DukePress Sara Ahmed wonders what's so great about happiness. http://ow.ly/3UB9e (review in Social Text)

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RT @khephir Extra testosterone reduces your empathy, researchers find - http://j.mp/eNViVE [ #sociology #empathy ]

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Time taps into transhumanism http://dlvr.it/GHqnQ #sentdev (via @GeorgeDvorsky)

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RT @GeorgeDvorsky Species we are considering as nonhuman persons: dolphins, cetaceans, great apes, elephants, possibly:cephalopods, parrots.

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RT @GeorgeDvorsky Official launch: Rights of Non-Human Persons: http://bit.ly/heJrdD #animalrights #personhood #ieet

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RT @armitage__: Astronauts and soldiers use the stimulant Modafinil for sustained concentration - @TomMostlyZen #hplusuk

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Also: as long as we are improving humans, can we make people who are nicer to each other? #hplusuk (via @RobFisher)

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RT @armitage__: David Pearce on pros/cons of mass MDMA to teach/promote empathy. #worldMDMAday would be interesting experiment @hplusuk

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RT @RobFisher: David Pearce says we should engineer friendliness into our artificial intelligences #hplusuk

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RT @armitage__ We should aspire to a God's-eye-view/view from nowhere scenario =happiness for all sentient beings - David Pearce #hplusuk

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RT @RobFisher: David Pearce is up. He wants to eliminate suffering. Talking about empathetic superintelligence #hplusuk

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RT @ddrrnt: I'm at #hplusUK & David Pearce coins "Machiavellian apes". The types with HDD, ya know? #ebDish http://bit.ly/g8gzl7

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RT @armitage__: David Pearce beginning his talk on an empathic superintelligence #hplusuk

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No amygdala, no fear http://nyti.ms/dHinwC (via @GeorgeDvorsky)

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RT @RevRunWisdom What makes all of us the same is that we ALL want to be happy -Dalai Lama

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RT @CogSciLibrarian what is consciousness? what is 'self' as opposed to 'mind?' Antonio Damasio on @scifri. book: 'Self comes to Mind'...

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RT @CogSciLibrarian Harvard's Killingsworth, coauthor (w/ Gilbert) of Science article http://bit.ly/aKDDip on @scifri re tracking happiness.

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New generation of fast-acting anti-depressants? http://ow.ly/1f3f7

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RT @glorialloyd: "Compared to them, we are all color-blind" - the women who see more colors than you do - http://bit.ly/4H77t

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War reporting induces forgetfulness of ads - http://ow.ly/1eGni