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Crossposted to Less Wrong
‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
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I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
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TL;DR: EA has traditionally deprioritized climate change as a cause area. But a new report from Rethink Priorities, an EA research institute, suggests that specific Earth systems risks driven by climate change could have mortality impacts comparable to major global health burdens, on top of the known damages of climate change.
The report finds that research and governance work on ‘Earth Systems Stabilization’ to establish whether safe options to address th...
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i think i did a pretty good job summarizing "ethics" here. my position is that ethics is just the behaviors genes deploy to help get themselves copied, and that there's no such thing as normativity. words like "ought" and "should" are just expressing a subjective preference.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MWgZviLNPCM&si=76Z_UkNmRo_fgW3j