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The conquest of suffering : Buddhism versus utilitarianism
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paradise-engineering .com : The Genetics of True Love
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| | Thanks to genetic engineering, our descendants may not just love everyone, but be in love with everyone as well.
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Happiness, hypermotivation and the meaning of life
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| | [AI summary] A sci-fi speculative essay exploring how rewriting human genetics and tech could permanently fix addiction, depression, and low motivation by mechanically adjusting the brain's pleasure-pain chemistry.
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The abolitionist project presupposes a utilitarian ethic. Objections to The Hedonistic Imperative
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| | Does the abolitionist project presuppose a Benthamite utilitarianism?
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Indra's Net via Nonlinear Optics: DMT Phenomenology as Evidence for Beamsplitter Holography and Recursive Harmonic Compression | Qualia Computing
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| [Epistemic Status: Speculating on a key implementation detail within the paradigm of the Brain as a Non-Linear Optical Computer (BaaNLOC) - specifically, how the optical function of beam splitting could be used to compose the contents of a conscious simulation scene with principles of cel animation and holography. In particular, this may explain both how...