Category: Solutions

One of the most cost effective solutions that will be evaluated by the Crowdsourcing Utopia system is David Pearce’s Hedonistic Imperative. ability to control the motivational and reward systems in the brain. The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.         The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but […]

The Wisdom of Crowds is about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton‘s surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the […]