David Pearce ✓
@webmasterdave · Brighton UK · joined 29 Mar 2009
Let's use biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world: https://t.co/XKNOcuG8IS https://t.co/PST6yjXDMu
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If what philosophers call the intrinsic nature argument is sound, then the Hard Problem of consciousness is an artefact of bad metaphysics.
https://t.co/wcIDuJlR2p
Naively, consciousness fundamentalism is the recipe for digital minds. But our (super)intelligent AIs are no more
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Can digital zombies awake?
https://t.co/ej9CRGiSOf
Or are we creating alien intelligence, not alien minds?
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How many human editors would be as astute? https://t.co/I7T3i8kbwO
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Zombies are getting ever smarter than humans; and still no more conscious than a rock.
https://t.co/SYeLIzy9oP
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Let’s use biotech and Ai to create life based on gradients of bliss.
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Episode 2 with David Pearce is out! Can we abolish suffering? https://t.co/jJpFQrcNad
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This link got buried in the new X layout change too. Hmm… I’m a rather conservative futurist.
https://t.co/T7TpPg7Ygt
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This page was mysteriously buried in the new layout change on X.
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Theoretical elegance be damned; let’s hope it’s false:
https://t.co/Nb0Ce0F2dP
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Have I already written this page an infinite number of times already; and will do so again? Physicist Sean Carroll explores Nietzschean eternal recurrrence
https://t.co/CbFdWEikB1
(“Toward a Phenomenologically Acceptable Quantum Cyclic Universe”)
Sisyphean physics is scary.
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What is the functional equivalent of such ruminations in superintelligent digital zombies like tomorrows AI?
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[on the medium of thought by David Pearce]
Shivon Zilis writes:
"When you think, what medium do you tend to think in?
Would be very curious to hear how you’d describe the base unit(s) of your thoughts and how they feel to you.
I assumed what happens in my head was similar to
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Decades, centuries, millennia?
What are the odds?
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@webmasterdave Pretty amazing!! This layout has the best format I have seen in months, reminds me of the best of the best of the print magazines I used to get (and love).
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My 2026 to date:
https://t.co/fkL4R4QkmM
Just training data for zombie AI?
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I wonder if a single principle of physics explains (1) the phenomenal binding problem in neuroscience, (2) the measurement problem in QM, and (3) the mystery of why anything exists at all.
https://t.co/N0wecajHSB
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AI should be used for paradise engineering.
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“The world’s last unpleasant experience will be a precisely dateable event a few centuries from now.”
- David Pearce https://t.co/0dhn6Yay7q
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Timeless truths that will echo down the ages?
Or webmasterdave’s contribution to the library of Babel?
Alas, I can guess...
But Happy 2018!
#happiness #transhumanism #physics #ai #philosophy
https://t.co/HBtNoTKDQP https://t.co/YEimyirRCJ
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Against accounts of the same size
18 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.
Median views368this account6 092median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.32%this account1.61%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.78%this account0.98%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 368 | 6 092 | 0.06× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.32% | 1.61% | 0.20× |
| Engagement rate | 0.78% | 0.98% | 0.79× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
64217 Aug
3.1K
298
33718 Aug
23519 Aug
7924 Aug
207
6.9K30 Aug
4.5K
14731 Aug
1252 Sep
1415 Sep
2.8K7 Sep
4.6K8 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.93%17 Aug
0.90%
1.01%
1.19%18 Aug
0.43%19 Aug
0.00%24 Aug
0.00%
0.25%30 Aug
1.41%
0.68%31 Aug
0.80%2 Sep
1.42%5 Sep
0.67%7 Sep
1.03%8 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.98%.
What the audience does
Likes67.7%287 in total
Reposts6.6%28 in total
Replies12.7%54 in total
Bookmarks13.0%55 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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