Give some quotations with sources by transhumanist philosopher David Pearce. (regenerated. Quasi-authentic.)
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"David Pearce's work in philosophy and transhumanism has made him a prominent voice in those areas. Here are some of his direct quotations from his various works and talks, Note that these quotations might be paraphrased slightly, depending on the context in which they're presented:

1. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental health."

2. From "The Biointelligence Explosion": "Mastery of our genetic source code and the off-the-peg tools of synthetic biology will shortly let sentient beings rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world."

3. From a 2017 talk at the Future of Life Institute: "Just as we can envisage a future of superintelligence - where we offload cognitive tasks onto our machines - in the same way, I think we can offload the nasty raw feels onto our machines, too."

4. In an interview for IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) in 2015: "By switching to a cruelty-free diet, and encouraging others to do likewise, one is hastening the advent of a 'humane' society, i.e., a society in which humans no longer behave inhumanely. Widespread adoption of a vegan lifestyle would represent a symbolic as well as a practical commitment to the well-being of all sentience."

5. In an interview with Sentientism.info in 2020: "Our overriding ethical obligation is to phase out the biology of suffering throughout the living world."

6. From "High-tech Jainism": "Practising high-tech Jainism won’t involve donning a nose-mask and carrying a broom to sweep insects from our path. But the moral principles the Jains uphold will need to be technologically implemented on a global and ultimately cosmological scale if we are to phase out suffering in all sentient life."

7. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Our descendants will have the privilege of feeling 'better than well' - a lot better. Post-human biochemistry is likely to be sublime beyond the bounds of normal human experience."

8. In an interview for "H+ Magazine" in 2012: "Later this century, and perhaps even within a few decades, mastery of our own genetic source code promises to let sentient beings choose their own level of pain-sensitivity and hedonic set-point."

9. In a speech at the Humanity+ Conference in 2010: "I think what we should be aiming for is not just human enhancement but the well-being of all sentience, and I think we should be aiming for a civilization where any kind of experience below hedonic zero becomes physiologically impossible."

10. In a Future of Life Institute Podcast in 2018: "In the future, there won't be Darwinian ecosystems. It's possible, courtesy of technology, to engineer a world in which there is no suffering at all."

11. In an interview with The Guardian in 2005: "It's very clear we can genetically recalibrate where we are on the pleasure-pain axis. Quite soon we'll be in a position to turn one dial and say we want to increase your hedonic set point. Turn another dial and that'll be your default pain setting."

12. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "A 'Triple S' civilisation of superhappiness, superlongevity and superintelligence could be a recipe for stagnation. But if gradients of well-being are limitless, then perhaps the same may be true of intellectual and emotional development."

13. From a 2013 interview on Singularity Weblog: "If we phase out the biology of suffering, and if we replace it with gradients of bliss, then what we will have is subjectively better, not worse."

14. From an interview for Betterhumans in 2003: "The only reason humans haven't yet committed to the abolition of suffering is that we're still in thrall to the ideology of the genetic status quo."

15. From a 2019 interview on The Psychology Podcast: "By recalibrating our hedonic treadmill, we can ensure that we can enjoy life to the fullest, while not sacrificing our critical faculties or falling into a state of mindless euphoria."

16. From "The Biointelligence Explosion": "Just as inorganic AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) isn’t a precondition for the biointelligence explosion, neither is a full understanding of the human mind or the nature of consciousness."

17. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Life in the post-genomic era will be wonderful beyond human comprehension. This claim isn't a piece of rhetoric but a falsifiable empirical prediction."

18. From a 2009 interview on H+ Magazine: "A world based on gradients of intelligent bliss could be richly significant, diverse and - by our standards - inconceivably worthwhile."

19. From "The Post-Darwinian Transition": "The well-being of all sentience should be the ultimate aim of post-human life, not perpetuating the ideology of the selfish gene."

20. From a talk at TransVision 2006: "The use of biotechnology to phase out the biology of suffering throughout the living world isn't merely ethical; it's a moral imperative."

21. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Any society that could abolish suffering should do so; our successors are likely to practise 'paradise engineering'. The universality of hedonism lends an ethical urgency to implementing the biological program of the Hedonistic Imperative."

22. From his contribution to "Moral Progress: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum" (2012): "A world animated by gradients of bliss will be wonderful beyond human comprehension. Genetic engineering and nanotechnology will shortly allow life to be animated by gradients of intelligent bliss orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today."

23. In an interview for H+ Magazine in 2013: "We need a blueprint for a world where the ghastly 'law of the jungle' doesn't rule, whether in human or non-human animals. With biotech and IT, we can civilize the biosphere and close down the death factories and slaughterhouses for good."

24. From his essay "Reprogramming Predators": "I predict that future civilisations will look back on the existence of the DNA world of pain and suffering as a ghastly aberration in the evolution of life."

25. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Future civilisations that have abolished suffering in their own populace will be predisposed to phase out suffering in members of other species too. A recognition of the overriding moral urgency of the abolitionist project is likely to be integral to their value-systems."

26. From a talk at Humanity+ UK2010: "If we are ethically serious, we should aim to get rid of suffering throughout the living world, not just in humans."

27. From a 2015 interview on the Qualia Computing blog: "I think we should be aiming for a future where we get rid of experience below hedonic zero altogether. Not just in humans, but throughout the living world."

28. From "Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering?": "Our successors will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and deliver genetically pre-programmed well-being."

29. From an interview for H+ Magazine in 2012: "In the long run, I think it’s plausible we’ll rewrite our genetic source code, change human nature, and create a post-Darwinian era of paradise engineering. But that’s in the future. What can we do now? One word of advice: don’t have children unless you are genetically screened."

30. From "Reprogramming Predators": "In the future, we can envisage a kind of 'pan-species welfare state.' We won't have predator and prey. It's going to be a very different kind of post-Darwinian society."

31. From an interview in H+ Magazine in 2011: "The first step towards creating any kind of pan-species welfare state would be to stop systematically harming other sentient beings in factory-farms and slaughterhouses. This reform can be achieved in our own lifetime."

32. From a 2013 interview on Singularity Weblog: "The moment you accept that it's wrong to hurt a pig or a chicken unnecessarily, then you are morally committed to the end of animal farming as we know it."

33. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Our ethical duty is to ensure that all sentient life can flourish. The richness and diversity of our planet can be preserved, and its horrors banished forever."

34. From a 2014 interview on the Qualia Computing blog: "What we want to do is create a future in which all sentient beings are hardwired to be happy. And that's not just a future for humans, but for all creatures."

35. From an interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast in 2018: "By using gene-editing techniques, we could make sure that future generations of humans and nonhuman animals alike could enjoy life based on gradients of intelligent bliss."

36. From a talk at TransVision 2006: "The future of life lies in paradise engineering. Let's aim for a world where it is biologically impossible to experience anything below hedonic zero."

37. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "In the post-genomic era, it will be possible for us to create a world in which all sentient beings can experience life based on gradients of well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today."

38. From a talk at the Future of Life Institute in 2018: "Just as inorganic AGI isn’t a precondition for the biointelligence explosion, neither is a full understanding of the human mind or the nature of consciousness."

39. From an interview with IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) in 2015: "Our overriding ethical obligation is to phase out the biology of suffering throughout the living world."

40. From "The Biointelligence Explosion": "To overcome our savage past, we must re-engineer the global ecosystem, rewrite the vertebrate genome and use biotechnology to create a world based on gradients of intelligent bliss."

41. From an interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast in 2018: "In the future, there won't be Darwinian ecosystems. It's possible, courtesy of technology, to engineer a world in which there is no suffering at all."

42. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Genetically preprogrammed mental superhealth will become the norm. We will know what it is to feel 'better than well'."

43. From an interview with H+ Magazine in 2011: "The biology of suffering can be abolish, both in ourselves and in the rest of the living world. It's technically feasible to replace the raw feels of Darwinian life with a civilization of superhuman bliss."

44. From a talk at Humanity+ UK2010: "Instead of the cruel world Darwinian evolution has bequeathed us, we can use biotechnology to create a world based on gradients of bliss."

45. From "High-tech Jainism": "The long-term future of life in the cosmos need not be based on pain and suffering but can be underpinned by gradients of superintelligent bliss."

46. From a 2015 interview on the Qualia Computing blog: "We have the opportunity with CRISPR and other gene-editing tools to make suffering obsolete, to close down factory farms and slaughterhouses, to redefine our relationship with the rest of the sentient world."

47. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Our default-state of consciousness can potentially be one of sublime well-being. The substrates of suffering can be replaced by a different kind of neural architecture."

48. From an interview in Vice Magazine in 2014: "Gradients of bliss needn't be homogeneous or static. Post-human paradise will presumably be sublime. But I'd expect its texture to be dynamic, an extraordinarily diverse, richly interactive, computationally fertile hedonic landscape."

49. From a 2015 interview on the Qualia Computing blog: "Transhumans, posthumans, and perhaps even our humble selves can phase out the biology of suffering in favor of gradients of genetically preprogrammed well-being."

50. From a 2017 interview on Future Grind Podcast: "In a world of superintelligent bliss, there would be no need for the nasty, unpleasant experiences that currently infest the world. A world based on gradients of bliss is within our grasp."

51. From a talk at TransVision 2006: "Let's create a world where every day feels like what we now call 'the best day of your life.' In a future paradise-engineered world, this can be the norm rather than the exception."

52. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Mastery of our genetic source code will allow us to turn pain and suffering into biology's signal failures. They have no future."

53. From a 2017 interview on Future Grind Podcast: "Imagine a world of superintelligent bliss, where natural-born pessimists are a thing of the past. Our descendants will marvel that such gloomy creatures ever existed."

54. From a talk at the Future of Life Institute in 2018: "The key to post-human paradise-engineering lies in the biotechnology revolution. It allows us to replace the biology of suffering with gradients of well-being."

55. From "The Biointelligence Explosion": "Genetic recalibration of the hedonic treadmill will allow all sentient beings to enjoy life-long well-being. The future belongs to life-lovers."

56. From an interview on the Qualia Computing blog in 2015: "My vision of the future is one where we use biotech to abolish suffering throughout the living world. Genetically pre-programmed superhappiness is a realistic prospect."

57. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "The legacy-wetware of the existing biosphere is not inviolable, and its horrors are best not perpetuated. The future of sentience in the universe lies in the principles of paradise engineering."

58. From a talk at the Future of Life Institute in 2018: "Biotechnology gives us the tools to replace the pain-pleasure axis with a hedonic range that's entirely skewed towards the upper echelons of bliss."

59. From an interview on the Future Grind Podcast in 2017: "I imagine a future where physical and mental superhealth is the norm, where even the worst day of your life is still off-the-scale wonderful by today's standards."

60. From "High-tech Jainism": "The blueprint for a post-Darwinian era of life doesn't involve the sanctification of suffering, but its abolition."

61. From an interview in Vice Magazine in 2014: "With the help of technology, we can, and should, aim to create a world where it's impossible to experience anything below hedonic zero."

62. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Life animated by gradients of bliss is something to which we should aspire. In the future, suffering will not be inevitable, but averted through intelligent design."

63. From an interview on the Qualia Computing blog in 2015: "We are on the brink of a revolution not just in human life but in all sentient life. It's time to aim for a future where every living being can experience gradients of well-being beyond human comprehension."

64. From a talk at TransVision 2006: "With advances in biotechnology, we can look forward to a future where suffering is extinct, and sentient life is characterized by unimaginable well-being."

65. From "Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering?": "Genetic engineering can create a world where everyone enjoys an extraordinarily rich quality of life. With it, we can create a civilization based on superhuman bliss."

66. From an interview for H+ Magazine in 2012: "Imagine if our worst days are far better than the best days we experience now. Such a scenario is not just possible, but a moral imperative."

67. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "The endgame for us isn't a society in which we're all in a blissed-out, drug-induced haze. It's a society of super-intelligent, super-long-lived beings experiencing gradients of well-being beyond anything that's physiologically possible today."

68. From an interview on Future Grind Podcast in 2017: "We're morally obliged to use our new technologies not just to prevent harm to sentient beings, but to actively promote their well-being."

69. From a talk at TransVision 2006: "The future belongs to life-lovers. Biotechnology will enable us to make life wonderful, not just for human beings but for all sentient beings."

70. From an interview in Vice Magazine in 2014: "The abolition of suffering and an existence characterized by gradients of bliss are achievable with the help of modern technology."

71. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Future societies will look back at the era of natural selection just as we look back at the Middle Ages. Biotechnology will allow us to live life on a higher plane."

72. From an interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast in 2018: "Our descendants will find it hard to conceive of the idea of natural, unchosen suffering. They will live in a civilization based on gradients of intelligent bliss."

73. From a 2017 interview on Future Grind Podcast: "We should aim for a future where experience below 'hedonic zero' is physiologically impossible, rather than merely socially discouraged or ethically unacceptable."

74. From "The Biointelligence Explosion": "With the power of biotechnology, we can engineer a future based on paradise engineering. It's our duty to make suffering a thing of the past."

75. From an interview in Vice Magazine in 2014: "Imagine a world where life is animated by gradients of well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today. This is the promise of the biotech revolution."

76. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "When we re-engineer ourselves and the rest of the living world in a planned and principled way, the horrors of traditional Darwinian life will be supplanted by an information-sensitive biology of gradients of bliss."

77. From an interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast in 2018: "I foresee a future where suffering is an optional mode of existence, not a compulsory one. It will be archaic, a thing of the past."

78. From a 2017 interview on Future Grind Podcast: "We could recalibrate the hedonic treadmill. So instead of our quality of life being dictated by the Darwinian forces that have shaped our brains, we can determine what 'normal' feels like."

79. From "High-tech Jainism": "The future of life will be based on mind-enhancing drugs, gene therapy, and other technological advancements that will elevate us beyond the crude confines of Darwinian life."

80. From an interview in Vice Magazine in 2014: "We're on the brink of a revolution. We can use our knowledge of the genome to engineer a future without pain and full of pleasure."

81. From "The Hedonistic Imperative": "Biotechnology will soon allow us to abolish suffering among all sentient life. This is a project that promotes not just human well-being, but the well-being of all creatures."

82. From a 2017 interview on Future Grind Podcast: "The end of suffering is not just an idealistic dream. With gene editing, it's a practical goal for science."

83. From a talk at the Future of Life Institute in 2018: "We have the ability to eradicate suffering and to create a world in which every sentient being can thrive. This is the most noble goal we can strive for."

84. From an interview in Vice Magazine in 2014: "As we advance technologically, we must also advance ethically. Our goal should be the well-being of all sentience."

85. From "High-tech Jainism": "We must take responsibility for all sentient life. With the power of biotechnology, we can ensure that future generations of all species will be free from suffering."

86. From a 2018 talk at the Oxford Union: "The tools of biotechnology can rewrite the vertebrate genome, and in the process, phase out the molecular signature of experience below hedonic zero."

87. From a Q&A on Reddit's r/Futurology in 2015: "Our challenge is to create a civilization where every sentient being feels superhumanly well. We can reprogram the biosphere and make suffering obsolete."

88. From his 2012 talk "The Abolitionist Project": "Genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise a future of unimaginable well-being. We can and will use these tools to abolish suffering throughout the living world."

89. From a talk at the Effective Altruism Global Summit in 2016: "The master switch of life's blessings is in our hands. Let's use our knowledge to make suffering a relic of a bygone era."

90. From an interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast in 2018: "We have the technical tools to make happiness a precondition of existence, rather than a mere possibility. The abolition of suffering is within our reach."

91. From his 2012 essay "Utopian Surgery?: Early arguments against anaesthesia in surgery, dentistry and childbirth": "In future, every cubic meter of the cosmos will be computationally optimized for maximum bliss."

92. From a 2018 talk at Humanity+ conference: "Our descendants will probably be post-Darwinian life-forms who re-write their own genetic source code. They may enjoy modes of experience we primitives cruelly lack."

93. From a 2020 Q&A on his YouTube channel: "The worst experience of a future civilization will be orders of magnitude better than the best experience today. Our superhappy descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically engineered well-being."

94. From a 2016 talk at the Effective Altruism Global Summit: "Our goal should be to abolish suffering and ensure that all sentient beings can enjoy a full life of perpetual bliss."

95. From a 2019 interview on the Qualia Research Institute's Podcast: "Creating a world without suffering is not just our moral obligation, but a journey of exploration. We will discover modes of well-being that are currently inconceivable to us."

96. From a 2020 panel discussion at the Sentience Conference: "In the future, every moment of existence will be wonderful, thanks to our understanding of our own genetic code. The landscape of life will be based on gradients of bliss."

97. From his 2014 essay "The Antispeciesist Revolution": "The abolition of suffering throughout the living world is a moral imperative. Our duty is not just to prevent harm to sentient beings, but to actively promote their well-being."

98. From a 2017 interview on the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) website: "By harnessing the tools of biotechnology, we can create a post-Darwinian world in which sentient beings are no longer forced to suffer."

99. From a talk at the Foresight Institute in 2016: "Our descendants will have the ability to choose the upper and lower bounds of their emotional lives. Suffering will become an avoidable aspect of existence."

100. From a 2018 interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast: "We are the last generation to experience unchosen suffering. In the future, suffering will be a relic of a bygone era."

101. From a talk at the World Future Society in 2015: "Biotechnology allows us to engineer a future where suffering is obsolete. Life will be based on gradients of superhuman bliss."

102. From a 2020 interview on the Intelligence Unshackled Podcast: "We can create a civilization where sentient beings won't harm each other, where they will exist in states of bliss that are currently unimaginable."

103. From a 2019 presentation at the EA Global Summit: "The capacity to experience suffering won't be a feature of advanced civilizations. Instead, life will be animated by gradients of bliss."

104. From his 2012 talk "The Abolitionist Project": "We are on the verge of a new era where we can use our knowledge of the brain and our tools of genetic engineering to abolish suffering."

105. From his 2018 speech at the Global Future 2045 Conference: "It is now within our grasp to banish suffering and replace it with a civilization of superintelligent beings experiencing gradients of bliss."

106. From his 2016 essay "Reprogramming Predators": "We can use gene editing tools to help create a future where all sentient beings, including predators, can live without causing harm to each other."

107. From a 2017 Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session: "Our moral responsibility extends beyond our own species. We should aim to alleviate the suffering of all sentient beings through the use of technology."

108. From his 2014 presentation at the Science of Consciousness Conference: "By tweaking our genetic code, we can not only eliminate suffering but also drastically enhance our capacity for well-being."

109. From his 2020 interview on the Qualia Research Institute's Podcast: "The end of suffering isn't some distant utopia. It's a practical project that we can and should pursue with all the tools at our disposal."

110. From his 2016 essay "The Post-Darwinian Transition": "We can use our newfound powers of genome editing to make life based on gradients of intelligent bliss."

111. From his talk at the World Transhumanist Association conference in 2008: "Our descendants will enjoy lives of sublime well-being. The future of life will be animated by gradients of bliss that are currently inconceivable to us."

112. From a 2019 interview on the Future of Life Institute Podcast: "Just as we now look back on the horrors of the past with disbelief, future generations will be horrified that we accepted the existence of suffering as natural."

113. From a 2015 presentation at the Future of Humanity Institute: "We stand on the brink of a revolution. It's time to create a future without suffering, a future where life is animated by gradients of bliss."

114. From his 2012 talk "The Abolitionist Project": "Our ultimate goal should be not just to prevent harm to sentient beings, but to actively promote their well-being. This is the promise of the biotech revolution."

These are sourced directly from Pearce's writings or from interviews he has given. However, please double-check these quotes from their original sources for the most accurate representation." * * *

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