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I no longer endorse many of my comments from more than a few years ago, and I very much no longer endorse the argumentative, aggressive tone in which many of my comments were written, including ones I still endorse the content of

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I no longer endorse many of my comments from more than a few years ago, and I very much no longer endorse the argumentative, aggressive tone in which many of my comments were written, including ones I still endorse the content of

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A fable on AI x-risk

Whaliezer Seacowsky, founder of the Marine Intelligence Research Institute, is giving a lecture on the dangers of AI (Ape Intelligence). "Apes are becoming more intelligent at a faster rate than we are. At this pace, within a very short timeframe they will develop greater-than-whale intelligence. This will almost certainly have...

Feb 18, 2025•8

I'm making a ttrpg about life in an intentional community during the last year before the Singularity

Hi there! I'm Thomas Eliot. You may remember me from the Bay Area Rationalist Community, or the one in New York, or the one in Melbourne. I'm writing a semi-autobiographical roleplaying called THE SINGULARITY WILL HAPPEN IN LESS THAN A YEAR inspired by The Quiet Year by Avery Alder about...

Feb 13, 2025•11

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Oct 24, 2019•5

Moral Weight Doesn't Accrue Linearly

This post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/26/cortical-neuron-number-matches-intuitive-perceptions-of-moral-value-across-animals/ begs a very important question as part of its central premise. Even given the idea that animals have moral weight, it does not follow that there exist a number of them that are of equal moral weight to a human (or another kind of animal, etc). There...

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Moral Weight Doesn't Accrue Linearly

This post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/26/cortical-neuron-number-matches-intuitive-perceptions-of-moral-value-across-animals/ begs a very important question as part of its central premise. Even given the idea that animals have moral weight, it does not follow that there exist a number of them that are of equal moral weight to a human (or another kind of animal, etc). There exist infinite sequences that converge to finite values. It seems pretty clear to me that moral weight is not linearly additive. This is why we consider it worse when a species goes from 1,000 members to 0 members than when it goes from 1,001,000 members to 1,000,000 members, for instance.

I'm making a ttrpg about life in an intentional community during the last year before the Singularity

A fable on AI x-risk

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