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Consequentialists should have a comprehensive set of deontological beliefs they adhere to
Jay954mo10

It is, but I'm specifically saying a form of rule consequentialism that serves personal happiness about as well as it could be served is in fact rational (for anyone who is trying to maximize impersonal happiness and probably for anyone who is a consequentialist of any kind).

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Morality is Accidental & Self-Congratulatory
Jay952y10

I don't think there's a physical difference between morality being arbitrary because it is the evolution of blind selfish memes, or morality being limited by practical considerations. If someone had a hypothetical objective morality they could still be a slave-owner and war-monger in one age and a civil-rights activist calling for world peace in a different age.

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Accurate Models of AI Risk Are Hyperexistential Exfohazards
Jay953y20

Dumb question: In the omnicide outcome agi continues its existence, but whether it's sentient or not no one else from earth does. In the undignified survival outcome agi continues its existence and potentially so do many humans for functionally ever and those human may have lives better than death (even barely). Why is parochial value-alignment necessarily worse than no alignment at all?

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Three enigmas at the heart of our reasoning
Jay954y10

An "ontological crisis" is treated well enough when you note your perception as a belief. If it's literally impossible to not have a best working model of reality in its entirety that undermines profound doubt.

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3Consequentialists should have a comprehensive set of deontological beliefs they adhere to
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-2A poor but certain attempt to philosophically undermine the orthogonality of intelligence and aims
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-8Orthogonality and the increased overlap of actions with the set of all events that comes with increased intelligence
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