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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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If humanity is able to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), it is unanimously seen as good that humanity should be permitted to do whatever it chooses. For example: Some humans…
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There are times in the history of civilization where change is not an option, only how we change. The choice is between: We’ll discuss how this dynamic applies to humanity…
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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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Humans matter. They’re the most valuable single species on planet earth, and it’s not even close. I’m not saying this simply because I’m human and have a self-interested motive to…
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What does it mean to “care” about something? In order to care about the future, it’ll help us to open by discussing an event from the recent past. Watch the…
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Opening Note: This essay will serve not just as a reply to Torres, but to the many other thinkers, current and future, who will decide (either through their own readings,…
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The guiding ideals of most humans are naturally oriented towards the benefits of, well, human beings. “We should create technologies that improve the lives of current and future human beings.”–“We…
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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…
