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Who is unbiased in this case? You have to acknowledge that all parties have agendas.

Ok, let’s hope you are right on the anti-imperialism front and that the US citizens will not tolerate all that saber rattling against Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal…

or maybe you are just misunderstanding and rationalizing what’s going on to tell yourself that everything is going fine on the US politics side of things while the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that you voted a narcissistic authoritarian into office.

Let’s hope you are right!

/s so horrible people are distinguished by the fact that they are never nice to their in-group?

There are also bikes with wind shields and roofs. Also battery powered acceleration support. Probably also heating if you are so inclined. Just saying bikes can be pretty comfortable if that’s what you need.

But that’s a rather simplistic perspective because a moral imperative in the Kantian sense can already apply much earlier.

For instance, don‘t inflict unnecessary harm on living animals if it can be reasonably avoided.

At least to me this sounds like a pretty reasonable rule that I would be willing to follow and could prevent a lot of suffering in the world.

ok, I will bite for this one.

As someone enjoying a vegan lifestyle, I am living proof that humans do not need to eat other animals. Also if we would stop the cruel practice of factory farming, it’s common knowledge that we would have more calories available for us humans. In terms of sustenance, we are going out of our way to hurt humans and other animals to uphold the entrenched consumption patterns of a select few.

I think for AI overlords the question will be quite similar… how should we use the resources which we have available? Who is worthy of consideration and who is not? At the moment, we are truly not making a great case for keeping us around because anything we can do, they can do better. So why keep us around if not for some ethical insight?

I find the tone and collective mindset expressed in this article deeply unsettling. We are talking about developing technology that is going to be the foundation and a huge challange for the longterm development of the human race and people are overtly stating that they are working on this because they perceive this to be a shot at making trillions of dollars. I mean, what the fuck, how can money be the right motivator here? This technology would change everything about what it means to be human and we do it because „we can make money“? This is so shortsighted it’s almost tragically laughable. And we as a society worship people talking this way as somekind of heropreneuers. Like anyone alive today would be able to do anything without all the people supporting our continent crossing supply chains that are crazy environmentally destructive and allround unsustainable.

Sorry for this rant but come we can do better than this!

Quite long but inspiring lecture on how we can align markets, recommender systems, products, and organizations with our values.