"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

Fascinating talk by philosopher David Chalmers, hosted by previous Sentientism podcast guest Jeff Sebo! Includes a "citation" for us! 🙂💚 https://youtu.be/-BcuCmf00_Y

"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

This has reached ~5 million #Minecraft fans so far... https://youtu.be/HBi4IR1cMVo

Clip from episode 78 with Jonina Turzi

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

Should extraterrestrial life be granted #SentientRights? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221101-should-extraterrestrial-life-be-granted-sentient-rights