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The more humanity comes to understand the cosmos, the more we see the cosmos as a set of processes. We once thought the universe “always was,” and now we see…
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Consciousness is just about the most morally relevant thing imaginable. It’s what permits things to be “imaginable” in the first place. If you are held down and burned with a…
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The “thermodynamic god” is modern e/acc Twitter-speak for the impersonal, ultimate, accelerating, entropy-driven process that Land sees as underlying all intelligence and technological evolution. The idea is that entropy “wants”…
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Over the course of writing my Cosmic Moral Aspirations (CMA) essay, I came across a number of moral and psychological development models that exhibited the kind of “trend towards the…
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Enough “What’s your p(Doom)?” How about asking: “What’s your p(Bloom)?” Asking someone for their “p(bloom)” means asking them: “What is the likelihood that AGI will cause all sentient and autopoietic…
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In expressing my notion of the Worthy Successor, or any kind of idea about entities with more potentia and moral value than present-day humans, people sometimes suspect that Worthy Successor…
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Over the past 13 years, I developed a specific set of moral beliefs that felt like a kluge of what I was reading (Emerson, Bostrom, Al-Rodhan, others). For a full…
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Imagine a future where a Worthy Successor AGI exists. This is an entity that can continuously expand potentia, is presumably sentient, and is already mostly concerned with achieving goals beyond…
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In 2025, it is no longer intellectually honest to completely shun the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI) or AGI risk. Yet still, in Dec 2024 (the time of this…
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From Emerson’s Self-Reliance: This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds…