a massive essay exploring how to eliminate suffering on planet earth. from the abstract “this manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life. the abolitionist project is ambitious, implausible, but technically feasible. It is defended here on ethical utilitarian grounds. genetic engineering and nanotechnology allow homo sapiens to discard the legacy-wetware of our evolutionary past. our post-human successors will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world.” well meaning utopians or strangely optimistic tin-foil hatters? both probably.