how confident are you that you are competent to give such an answer?
ETHICS
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God-like AI systems and first-person consciousness ethics
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I see. So you, too, distrust versions of God who can speak of themselves in the first person?
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Total God Concept: Agency and Competition Among Intelligent Agents
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The idea of the total God is linked to the agency that is enacted by those who decide to serve the best possible agent. In this perspective, demons are entities that identify as competition to the best possible agent
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Spam as Unethical AI-Driven Advertising Harming Users
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Spam is advertisement that refuses to pay the advertising service (eg X) and skirts its ethics review. It’s actively harming users, brand and business. Exterminating spam should be a core priority
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Generative AI’s Impact on Black Communities and Economic Inequality
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As often happens, the advent of a new technology can create or exacerbate divides, including the racial wealth gap. This is how gen AI may affect Black communities and Black workers. #genAI #AI #inclusion #ethics #equity #DEI #tech #IoT #blacktwitter
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US Legal System Independence and Democratic Power Distribution
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In the US, the government appoints the root level administrators of the legal codebase, but the independence of the legal system is necessary to keep the US a state in which all power is won and lost without killing people (the core feature of liberal democracies).
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Substrate Limits of Colonizing Consciousness Patterns
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Once you have a colonizing consciousness pattern, the limit of its capabilities are given by the effective size, plasticity, learning rate and determinism of its substrate. Multicellular evolution during which everyone tries to eat your brain is a very slow and noisy way to learn
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Law as Algorithm: Beyond Belief-Based Legal Systems
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The law is an algorithm, not a system of beliefs
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Secularism and Ideological Control in Institutional Systems
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Secularism feels absurd to adherents of large ideologies, because how can you be against doing good? In a non secular society, you can have communities of administrators and educators who work openly against the lawful state and require ideological submission from new hires.
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Public Servants Must Prioritize Lawful Society Over Ideology
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In a secular society, public servants have to swear loyalty to the lawful society, above the institutions of religion or their political camp, ideological movement, clan or ethnic ingroup.