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Beyond the immediate existential threats and challenge to global socio-economic order (along with the clear control drift 'upward' by virtue of human labor displacement due to capitalism), the current AI landscape has left me with a different kind of psychological pang. A decay of what I think generally was optimism...

Imagine if tomorrow, you knew, with total certainty through inextricable means, that when you woke up, at some point throughout the day you would learn the exact number of lives taken in one of history's many true horrors. Pick the worst one. And, that the number of souls that perished,...

This is a philosophical thought experiment which aims to explore what I consider to be the crux of many alignment problems: That of the unrescuability of moral internalism, which basically says we have not been able to rescue the philosophical view that a necessary, intrinsic connection exists between moral judgments...

Epistemic status: speculative synthesis of timeless-physics and anthropic ideas; exploratory and possibly confused, offered to clarify thinking rather than claim correctness. I recently read Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time, which explains the concept of time as something that exists only as our local, relational view of entropy. This seems...

A philosophical science-fiction allegory on alignment, coherence, and meaning > “Feeling makes matter matter.” This is a long-form narrative work — somewhere between myth, philosophy, and speculative science fiction — that explores themes of AI alignment, consciousness, solipsism, and moral coherence through an allegory of smart seeds and their creators....

Epistemic Status: Exploratory. This post attempts to formalize a pattern in discourse ethics and rational cooperation using the lens of transcendental argumentation. Epistemic Effort: Several hours of writing and reflection on philosophical and rationalist frameworks of communication. Motivation: To analyze how the logical structure of discourse itself constrains what can...