abolitionist.com
Review: Better Never To Have Been: the harm of coming into existence by David Benatar
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BETTER NEVER TO HAVE BEEN. The Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford University Press, 2006, 238pp., $45.00 (hbk), ISBN 0199296421. David Benatar's Better Never To Have Been. Challenges a deep source of status quo bias. Benatar argues that coming into being is always a harm. Consequently the ideal population size is zero. Best not to have been born", observed Sophocles, and Benatar concurs. Better Never To Have Been. Benatar's policy prescription is untenable. Anti-natalism will fail because any pred...
biointelligence-explosion.com
Supersentience
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HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES. CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT? Full-spectrum superintelligence entails a seamless mastery of the formal and. Subjective properties of mind: Turing plus Shulgin. Do biological minds have a future? And Artificial Intelligence: FUSION and REPLACEMENT Scenarios. Futurology based on extrapolation has a dismal track record. Even so, the iconic chart. Scenarios of the Technological Singularity. By contrast, mathematician I.J. Good. And most recently Eliezer Yudkowsky.
biopsychiatry.com
The Good Drug Guide : new mood-brighteners and antidepressants
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THE GOOD DRUG GUIDE. THE RESPONSIBLE PARENT'S GUIDE. FOR ALL THE FAMILY. Could we live happily. Perhaps. One's interest in the genetically pre-programmed. States of sublimity sketched in. Is tempered by the knowledge that one is unlikely to be around to enjoy them. It's all very well being told our descendants. Will experience every moment of their lives as a magical epiphany. For emotional primitives and our loved ones at present, most of life's moments bring nothing of the sort. Can this best be done?
aboutdrug.blogspot.com
About Drugs: august 2009
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Here you fiind all about drugs. Uarr; Grab this Headline Animator. Marți, 25 august 2009. Facts on Heroin - ABOUT HEROIN. The Truth about Heroin. Details the countless ways people can fall into the trap of this deadly substance. Street names for Heroin:. Heroin is usually injected, snorted or smoked. It is highly addictive. Heroin enters the brain rapidly but makes people think and react slowly, impairing their decision-making ability. It causes difficulty in remembering things. Scarred and/or collapsed ...
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Wireheads and Wireheading in Science Fiction : Larry Niven's The Ringworld Engineers
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Chapter 1 of Larry Niven's. CHAPTER 1 - UNDER THE WIRE. Louis Wu was under the wire when two men came to invade his privacy. As they reached for him Louis bent far sideways, for balance, and kicked once, twice, thrice. One of the invaders was down, curled around himself and not breathing, before the other found the wit to back away. Louis came after him. The other invader was on hands and knees, breathing in sips. Louis chopped at his neck, twice. The invaders lay still in the lush yellow grass. Current ...
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Suffering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For physical pain, see Pain. For other uses, see Suffer (disambiguation). And The Suffering (disambiguation). Tragic mask on the façade of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Part of a series. In a broad sense,. May be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence. The opposite of suffering is pleasure. Or more often yet to...
