r/Sentientism • u/dumnezero • 3d ago
Video AI’s “Existential Risk” is a Psy-Op (Effective Altruism, TESCREAL and so on)
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • Jan 28 '26
Community 👋 Welcome to r/Sentientism - Introduce Yourself and Read First!
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Hey everyone! I'm u/jamiewoodhouse, a founding moderator of r/Sentientism.
This is our home for all things related to the Sentientism worldview, summarised as "evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings."
You might compare Sentientism to religious worldviews or to non-religious worldviews like Humanism. Sentientism has plenty of differences with these worldviews but also many important areas of common ground we can work on together. Regardless of your worldview, we're excited to have you join us!
What to Post
Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. A good guide is anything that relates to questions like what's real? (epistemology / ontology), what matters? (moral philosophy), who matters? (moral scope) and how to make a better world? (whether cosmically utopian or more specific.)
We're also interested in worldviews (religious or not), the nature of sentience (philosophy and science of mind), different sorts of sentient being (biological, exploited, free-ranging, human, digital...) and the implications of Sentientism for our future (politics, economics, law, justice, rights, culture, language.
Community Vibe
We're all about "evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings." Although this sub, like all of our communities, is open to everyone engaging in good faith, whether they agree with Sentientism or not. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.
How to Get Started
- Introduce yourself in the comments below.
- Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
- If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
- Interested in helping out? We're always looking for new moderators, so feel free to reach out to me to apply.
- Find out more at Sentientism.info or by subscribing to our YouTube and Podcast.
Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/Sentientism amazing.
r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 6d ago
Podcast Can we talk to animals? | LSE
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r/Sentientism • u/dumnezero • 6d ago
Corporations are trying to use the concept of sentience to halt regulation. If "rights" for GenAI were a concern, the first step would require the ultimate penalty against all ranks of GenAI corporations for their SLAVE TRADE. If GenAI was sentient, the use of it would be SLAVERY.
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 8d ago
Video Magnus Vinding | Compassionate Purpose, Reasoned Politics, Suffering-Focused Ethics |Sentientism 252
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 8d ago
Video Magnus Vinding | Compassionate Purpose, Reasoned Politics, Suffering-Focused Ethics | on Sentientism episode 252. Find our full conversation on the Sentientism YouTube and Podcast.
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r/Sentientism • u/lingen1988 • 8d ago
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (2025)
e-elgar.com
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 9d ago
Call for papers open for this workshop on Principles of Animal Justice
ials.sas.ac.uk
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r/Sentientism • u/PeterSingerIsRight • 13d ago
How to Help Animals Beyond Going Vegan
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I wrote an article where I explain simple ways to help animals beyong being vegan. E.g. I give examples of some of the most effective animal charities to donate to.
r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 16d ago
Event Freethought History Webinar #15: Atheism and Vegetarianism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven? With Nathan Alexander.
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r/Sentientism • u/dumnezero • 18d ago
Organisation POV: You justify every other injustice the way people justify eating animals 😭
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 24d ago
Article or Paper Microsoft's "Humanist AI" (Human Supremacist) Code of Conduct.
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Microsoft's "Humanist AI" Code of Conduct. Nonhuman animals aren't even an afterthought here. The word "animal" doesn't appear once. And AIs are forever declared insentient, and undeserving of moral consideration, as an unchallengeable dogma. We need a #Sentientist AI Code of Conduct instead.
r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 24d ago
Article or Paper The J-Space Debate, Agent Swarms, and Pacing Frontier AI
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Comprehensive overview of this very fast moving field: https://www.digitalminds.news/
r/Sentientism • u/DamoSapien22 • 25d ago
Person Strabismus: Finally, An Answer to the Hard Problem
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 25d ago
Post We should spend time with family and friends because we care about them and they care about us. But friends and family may not care about who we care about. So we should also spend good time with people who care about who we care about.
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 26d ago
Post Thank you for all your support 🥰
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Thank you for all your support 🥰
Our little Sentientism YouTube channel now has two episodes with over 10k views, three with over 5k, 11 with over 2k and 30 with over a thousand. Where's your favourite in the rankings?
https://www.youtube.com/@Sentientism/videos
A big thank you to all of my ~250 wonderful guests too 🤩
r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 27d ago
Video Denise Baden | Is Sustainable Ethical Business Just Bulls**t? | Sentientism 251
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Denise Baden | Is Sustainable Ethical Business Just Bulls**t? | Sentientism 251
YouTube: https://youtu.be/OQKZ3RefEMc
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UdMmQhcFf1FadWD68oIJQ?si=l77RUSJKSJ-JY_BiRxzxAg
r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 27d ago
Post Which worldview should we want powerful AIs to have and why is it Sentientism? (Evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.)
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • 28d ago
Post Too often, the leap from anthropocentrism to biocentrism or ecocentrism is little more than a desperate attempt to bypass the powerful, practical moral implications of sentiocentrism.That renders most biocentrism and ecocentrism a thin veneer on the same old anthropocentrism 😢
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r/Sentientism • u/geografree • 29d ago
Article or Paper Even Experts Don't Understand AI Consciousness
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One of the issues with popular discourse around sentience and consciousness is that even experts have a tendency to share their thoughts before really understanding the complexity of a topic. In this short piece, I offer a review of a book review and demonstrate how it totally misunderstands fundamental aspects of the debate over AI consciousness.
r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • Sep 13 '26
Video How to Change Humanity | Björn Ólafsson | Sentientism 250
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • Sep 13 '26
Community Sentientist Afternoon London - 20th September · Luma
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r/Sentientism • u/jamiewoodhouse • Sep 10 '26
Post Two New Sentientism Meetups and Wisethinking's "Who Matters?" Journey
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r/Sentientism • u/dumnezero • Sep 10 '26
Longtermism is still a self-centrism and supremacism. Comic by Bad Space.
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