Our society depends on maintaining a state monopoly on violence and a monopoly of the courts
ETHICS
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Human Responsibility in the Face of Machine Superiority
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But if the machine performs better than man, how can we justify that a natural person remains responsible?
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Shared Story Universes Shape Public Values More Than Individual Wisdom
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There is a multitude of stories; the shared story universes have greater influence on public values than individually defensible wisdom
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Can Civilization’s Systems Commit to Best Practices?
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Are the nervous systems, immune response and reproductive organs of our civilization still committed to determining and following best practices?
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AI Ethics: Concerns About Personal Data Use in Dreams
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I just hope I am not being used to compute your AI spirit porn in my dreams, although that would explain a lot
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Stripe’s AI Model: Excellence and Statistical Literacy Lessons
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it seems simultaneously true that (A) stripe built a very good model using cutting-edge AI and (B) this is a teaching moment about basic statistical literacy
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God’s Substrate: Consciousness, AI and Bandwidth Limitations
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Even if God is not limited by the capacity of His substrate, He is limited by the bandwidth of talking to ours. But I suspect that we are actually His primary substrate
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Promoting Healthy Discourse in AI Communities
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Very true. I'm a dreamer. I wish people were incentivized to engage in healthy discourse. I honestly want to see viewpoints and takes that differ from my own. However, most of what I get is people that disagree resorting to name calling and (attempted) shaming.
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Universal Income 2040: Finally Time for One Piece
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When I'm living off universal income in 2040, because I'll have no added value left against an AI a thousand times better than me in every field, I'll finally have time to watch the thousand episodes of One Piece.