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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Adam Elwood

It seems to me that capitalism is fundamentally misaligned. The profit motive is at odds with life and health. AI in the service of capitalism is terrifying. My only hope is that an AGI that starts to figure out the world on its own turns out to be some kind of ecologically-minded communist

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yeah that's my hope as well, but I think it's unlikely the way things are going... We have to get an AGI to appreciate the importance of conscious valence and get it to optimise that in a non-horrific way

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Adam Elwood

More important than the valence of the conscious states of individual organisms is the health and allostasis of the biosphere as a whole, I think. One can optimize for a high number of people with good feelings and totally wreck the place in the process. Morality needs to be holobiotic at the scale of the planet as a whole. Not exclusively, but as a high priority

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