Interesting piece by a previous Sentientism guest and a potential future one! https://areomagazine.com/2022/09/27/hindu-vegetarianism-religion-and-animal-rights-in-india/
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Hindu Vegetarianism: Religion and Animal Rights in India - Areo
Although vegetarianism is more popular in India than in the west, this is not primarily motivated by a concern for animal rights. Animals are used extensively for food, leather and…View Post
Bringing animals into AI ethics. Fascinating summary https://faunalytics.org/bringing-animals-into-ai-ethics/ and full open access paper by Yip Fai Tse and Peter Singer https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-022-00187-z
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Bringing Animals Into AI Ethics - Faunalytics
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems impact animals in many ways. This paper presents an argument for including animals in AI ethics.
"People who showed more moral consideration of nonhuman animals... tended to show more moral consideration of sentient AIs."
"A variety of... characteristics... predicted moral consideration of AIs, especially a vegan :seedling: diet..."
https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/aims-survey-2021
"A variety of... characteristics... predicted moral consideration of AIs, especially a vegan :seedling: diet..."
https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/aims-survey-2021
Sentience Institute
Artificial Intelligence, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey: 2021
The Artificial Intelligence, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) survey measures the moral and social perception of different types of artificial intelligences (AIs), particularly sentient AIs.
DxE's Matt Johnson joins me for our latest Sentientism episode: https://youtu.be/niiBZVatbcY
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"We gotta make friends... that's the path to liberation" - DxE's Matt Johnson - Ep:129
Matt (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/matt-johnson) is Press Coordinator & investigator for @Direct Action Everywhere - DxE. He has conducted investigations, been threatened with prison for rescuing farm animals & pranked FoxNews by posing as…
This could be a major milestone - following on from the Cambridge Declaration... Surely the world will listen to 470 philosophers...? https://greea.ca/en/montreal-declaration-on-animal-exploitation/ Please do what you can to share this around on #WorldAnimalDay. I've tweeted of course if you want to retweet or share those.
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Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation
We are researchers in the field of moral and political philosophy. Our work is rooted in different philosophical traditions, and we rarely find ourselves in agreement with one another. We do agree,…
Should we genetically engineer animals so they suffer less? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8dD9vCcp0ko
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Should we genetically engineer animals so they suffer less? - Susana Monsó - Ep:113 clip #shorts
#Short clip from episode 113. Watch it all here: https://youtu.be/mD9mDKgzZWwSusana is assistant professor based at the Department of Logic, History, and Phi...
"Sentientism, Motivation and Philosophical Vulcans"
Fascinating paper by previous Sentientism podcast guest and FaceBook group member Luke Roelofs exploring three varieties of Sentientist moral status/scope...
- Broad: Even zero-valenced sentience (should such a thing be possible e.g. Philosophical Vulcans or photons under #panpsychism) matters
- Narrow: Only hedonically valenced sentience (e.g. suffering/pleasure) matters
- Motivational: Any sentience matters that motivates the experiencing subject to act, even if it doesn't involve suffering/pleasure.
Luke prefers the motivational version, which collapses to the narrow version if philosophcal vulcans can't exist.
It's a bit hard to imagine what it might be like to be one of these philosophical vulcans. They might express a preference for you not to torture them - but they wouldn't feel any valenced difference whether you did or not!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12420
(full paper is available on ResearchGate if you have a free account there: https://www.researchgate.net/.../361954014_Sentientism...).
Fascinating paper by previous Sentientism podcast guest and FaceBook group member Luke Roelofs exploring three varieties of Sentientist moral status/scope...
- Broad: Even zero-valenced sentience (should such a thing be possible e.g. Philosophical Vulcans or photons under #panpsychism) matters
- Narrow: Only hedonically valenced sentience (e.g. suffering/pleasure) matters
- Motivational: Any sentience matters that motivates the experiencing subject to act, even if it doesn't involve suffering/pleasure.
Luke prefers the motivational version, which collapses to the narrow version if philosophcal vulcans can't exist.
It's a bit hard to imagine what it might be like to be one of these philosophical vulcans. They might express a preference for you not to torture them - but they wouldn't feel any valenced difference whether you did or not!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papq.12420
(full paper is available on ResearchGate if you have a free account there: https://www.researchgate.net/.../361954014_Sentientism...).
Wiley Online Library
Sentientism, Motivation, and Philosophical Vulcans
If moral status depends on the capacity for consciousness, what kind of consciousness matters exactly? Two popular answers are that any kind of consciousness matters (Broad Sentientism), and that wha...
David Chalmers has just cited us again in a talk he's giving now on whether Large Language Models are sentient :)
New episode! Conspirituality, David "Avocado" Wolfe, Ethical Consumption and more - with Ethos CEO Jill Ettinger: https://youtu.be/vcaws0p5XLg (also on podcast as ever).
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Consumers can drive compassionate change - Ethos CEO Jill Ettinger - Ep:130
Jill (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/jill-ettinger) is co-founder, CEO & Head of Content for Ethos. She has been a leading voice in digital media for more than a decade, published in outlets including MTV, The Huffington Post & Village Voice.…
This should be fun - free to attend online or in person (London) - debate between two Sentientists (and Sentientism podcast guests): https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/vegan-vs-vegan/
The British Academy
Vegan vs vegan
Spanning animal rights, sustainable lifestyles and the future of food, this debate asks two vegans to consider whether we can have our cow and eat her too.
"What is compassion if it doesn't include all sentient beings?" I had the pleasure of joining psychologist Stan Steindl on his “Compassion in a T-shirt” series. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did. Don’t forget to sub to Stan’s channel! https://youtu.be/K4Y0I7OUg7g
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What is compassion if it doesn't include all sentient beings?
Here, I interview Jamie Woodhouse from Sentientism.info and the Sentientism Podcast. From his website:
"Sentientism is a philosophy or worldview – a way of thinking about what’s real and what matters. Sentientists use evidence and reason to work out what…
"Sentientism is a philosophy or worldview – a way of thinking about what’s real and what matters. Sentientists use evidence and reason to work out what…
Fascinating talk by philosopher David Chalmers, hosted by previous Sentientism podcast guest Jeff Sebo! Includes a "citation" for us! 🙂💚 https://youtu.be/-BcuCmf00_Y
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David Chalmers, "Are Large Language Models Sentient?"
This talk took place at New York University on October 13, 2022 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program.
About the talk
Artificial intelligence systems—especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from…
About the talk
Artificial intelligence systems—especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from…
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"Sentientism is the most objective moral theory" - Clip from Sentientism episode 8 with Stijn Bruers
Five pages full of the things we've been doing together to try to nudge the world towards "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." Have a flick through! https://sentientism.info/posts
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Posts - Sentientism
All of our podcast/YouTube episodes and posts about Sentientism (evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings).
This has reached ~5 million #Minecraft fans so far... https://youtu.be/HBi4IR1cMVo
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Escape Or Get Eaten As Cows in Minecraft
Today, we woke up as cows! Woah, how is this even possible!? This place seems pretty nice, but something feels off...
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Sentience is a profound tapestry - Clip from Sentientism episode 114 with Marina Bolotnikova! Full conversation here:https://youtu.be/Ou1kyzGP1fk
Fascinating conversation on #bioethics and sentient animals (humans included) between two previous #Sentientism guests, Claudia Hirtenfelder 🤩 and Jeff Sebo 🤩 - on The Animal Turn podcast: https://iroarpod.com/s5e2-bioethics-with-jeff-sebo/
"I agree wholeheartedly with Sentientism" - A.C. Grayling - Humanist Philosopher & Author joins me for Ep:132 (also on the podcast): https://youtu.be/gOIFmTazQiU
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"I agree wholeheartedly with Sentientism" - A.C. Grayling - Humanist Philosopher & Author - Ep:132
Anthony or A.C. (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/a-c-grayling) is a philosopher and author. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities. Anthony is the author of over 30 books including The Future of Moral Values…