TLDR The Saturation View holds that a world of varied joys is better than a world of equal but identical joys. Elliott Thornley objected that no one benefits from this variety, and Will MacAskill answered that it is a claim about the pattern of value in the world, rather than...
TLDR * One of the most significant challenges facing humanity is the widening gap between our rapidly increasing power and our slower progress (if there is any) in ethical understanding and application. I term this the power-ethics gap, and this has been creating increasing suffering and death (to animals and...
"Part one of our challenge is to solve the technical alignment problem, and that’s what everybody focuses on, but part two is: to whose values do you align the system once you’re capable of doing that, and that may turn out to be an even harder problem", Sam Altman, OpenAI...