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What is human nature? Is it selfishness? Love? Curiosity? Violence? Laziness? Ambition? Creativity? Transcendence? The usual answer is to treat these traits as though they were fundamentally human. We then…
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Humanity has mostly functioned a world that was mostly the same from one generation to the next. Life, business, technology, competition, coordination from one generation to the next was remarkably…
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Some people are open to seeing and valuing the blooming of the living process well beyond humanity – while others look at the world entirely through an anthropocentric lens (i.e.,…
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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…