https://veganfta.com/2022/03/29/50-reasons-to-go-vegan/ 50 Reasons to Go Vegan - including Sentientism!
Vegan FTA
50 Reasons to Go Vegan
Jordi Casamitjana, the author of the book “Ethical Vegan”, discusses 50 different reasons people can choose to adopt the philosophy of veganism for life. We are spoiled for choice.
New episode with podcast royalty! (someone actually listens to his) https://youtu.be/vzn-AhproxE
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"The world is going to get better for animals in our lifetime" - Species host Macken Murphy - Ep:105
Macken is a writer & science educator. He hosts a weekly podcast about animals, Species, recommended by both Apple & the BBC’s Wildlife magazine. He is curre...
Always fun talking to Humanists about non-human animals. Fascinating Corey Lee Wrenn presentation followed by discussion: https://youtu.be/G31fHkAurt0
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Why Animal Rights is a Humanist Issue
Although most animal rights activists identify as atheist or agnostic, the atheist/humanist community has traditionally been unwilling to apply reasoned thou...
Two things I hope our future AI overlords 🤖 have:
- Prudent sentience detectors
- Compassion for sentient beings.
I wish humans had them 😢
Fascinating paper linking #AIEthics & #AnimalEthics. Summary: https://faunalytics.org/the-overlaps-between-artificial-intelligence-animal-welfare/. Full paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/6/2/31/htm
- Prudent sentience detectors
- Compassion for sentient beings.
I wish humans had them 😢
Fascinating paper linking #AIEthics & #AnimalEthics. Summary: https://faunalytics.org/the-overlaps-between-artificial-intelligence-animal-welfare/. Full paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/6/2/31/htm
Faunalytics
The Overlaps Between Artificial Intelligence & Animal Welfare - Faunalytics
A recent paper addresses AI and animal welfare, and proposes ways that we, as a society, could prevent and relieve tremendous amounts of suffering.
Abstract for the above in case of interest & there's a short intro video: "‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to the capacity to have subjective experiences with a positive or negative valence, such as pain or pleasure. We review recent controversies regarding sentience in fish and invertebrates and consider the deep methodological challenge posed by these cases. We then present two ways of responding to the challenge. In a policy-making context, precautionary thinking can help us treat animals appropriately despite continuing uncertainty about their sentience. In a scientific context, we can draw inspiration from the science of human consciousness to disentangle conscious and unconscious perception (especially vision) in animals. Developing better ways to disentangle conscious and unconscious affect is a key priority for future research." Both the lead authors are in our Sentientism FaceBook group (all welcome).
New episode - let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/OybxPFN8Ifc
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"Incorrect beliefs impact the lives of others" - Street Epistemologist Mark Solomon - Ep:109
Dr. Mark Solomon is an author, neuropsychologist, musician and radio show/podcast host whose work touches on a wide range of topics. Mark produces a national...
Interesting article on AI sentience by Rob Long from the Future of Humanity Institute and the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness. As ever, I'm hoping this sort of thinking forces people to get more serious about the implications of non-human animal sentience too...
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwDbYmnSdoobdcJnx/key-questions-about-artificial-sentience-an-opinionated
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwDbYmnSdoobdcJnx/key-questions-about-artificial-sentience-an-opinionated
Lesswrong
Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide - LessWrong
What is it like to be DALL-E 2? Are today’s AI systems consciously experiencing anything as they generate pictures of teddy bears on the moon, explain jokes, and suggest terrifying new nerve agents? …
Which Animals Matter? by Henry Shevlin: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48628591
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Which Animals Matter? Comparing Approaches to Psychological Moral Status in Nonhuman Systems on JSTOR
Henry Shevlin, Which Animals Matter? Comparing Approaches to Psychological Moral Status in Nonhuman Systems, Philosophical Topics, Vol. 48, No. 1 (SPRING 2020), pp. 177-200
Interesting thesis by Ludwig Raal taking a Sentientist approach re: wild animal suffering: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/124595