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Sunday, November 28, 2004

Paradise-engineering : The Hedonistic Imperative: "The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.... The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. 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. It is predicted that the world's last unpleasant experience will be a precisely dateable event."
And that about says it - lots on this site, which doesnt seem a spoof, but no NO DIRECTION HOME (the Norman Spinrad short story, recommended)

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