Tag: Ethics
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Just brand competition
Headline: 1000 leading demons want to “pause” development of AI. The big-name demons are Elon, Woz, Andrew Yang, and WEFoid Harari. The rest of the names aren’t familiar, but MANY of them are in charge of IPOs using AI. Others are professors of “ethics”, which means eugenics. I don’t recognize any humans on the list.…
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WEF, not WE
Via EvolutionNews, a “philosophy” prof is worrying about the ethics of bug farming. If we’re going to farm animals that are candidates for sentience, then there should be welfare standards, says [philosophy processor Jonathan] Birch. Right now there are no widely recognized welfare guidelines for farmed insects, and few laws that specifically require insect farmers…
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Got curious
I decided to take a look at the central forum for the Effective Altruism monsters. Right off the bat their satanic evil shows up. Headline: Why neuron counts shouldn’t be used as proxies for moral weight. Jesus. This is exactly Peter Singer’s version of Nazi eugenics. The article says that many EA demons are proposing…
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Dance of demons
Kirn pointed to this interview of Bankman-Fried a few years ago when his fraud was still Cool. It’s scary as hell because the INTERVIEWER is a demonic psychopath judging Sam by the standards of psychopaths. He starts with Sam’s founding achievement, which was a stock trade inside the world of bitcoin. Sam figured out how…
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Bioethics and Roe
Wesley Smith writes an inside view of the Roe overturn. Smith has been writing and agitating against bioethics for a long time. He was involved in a 1997 Supreme case that unanimously ruled against a “right” for assisted suicide. The usual bioethics demons, plus MDs (Mengele Demons), were arguing for assisted suicide. Oddly enough the…
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The stupidest man in the world
Admittedly this is a far larger competition than Sanest Man, but here’s one convincing finalist. A professor in England is worrying about the moral implications of “virtual characters”. The question is actually moot, though. If we create our characters to be free-thinking beings, then we must treat them as if they are such – regardless…
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