Interesting piece that addresses some of the themes re: religion, caste, social justice and sentientist ethics that Chaitanya and I discussed: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/being-vegan-and-anti-caste-why-we-need-hear-marginalised-communities-168030

Hi all. Interesting AMA here with Sentientist Josh Milburn: https://youtu.be/O37X-OJAEM0

New episode - hope you enjoy - let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/SZnc4rUsxJU

Jeff Sebo | Artificial Sentience and the Ethics of Connected Minds https://youtu.be/9XDYu37S2ew

This was fun: https://youtu.be/-aimJox5oPI

Interesting discussion - referencing a Sentientist perspective! https://newbooksnetwork.com/wilderness-morality-and-value

Protecting Animals 51 - Sentientism on the Knowing Animals podcast https://pod.link/997543452/episode/45645370c00a21b9c0b8b1d7306177bf

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/

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

"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

DxE's Matt Johnson joins me for our latest Sentientism episode: https://youtu.be/niiBZVatbcY

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.

Should we genetically engineer animals so they suffer less? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8dD9vCcp0ko

"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...).

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).

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/

"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