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Émile P. Torres

Philosopher and historian of existential risk; wrote Human Extinction, and coined "TESCREAL" with Timnit Gebru for the cluster of ideologies they argue underpins the AI industry.

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    • Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.
      The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death.

      Against longtermism Said 19 Oct 2021

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    • Longtermism is not the same thing as caring about the long-term future or about future generations; it goes far beyond that.
      The initial thing to notice is that longtermism, as proposed by Bostrom and Beckstead, is not equivalent to ‘caring about the long term’ or ‘valuing the wellbeing of future generations’.

      Against longtermism Said 19 Oct 2021

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    • The moral theory underneath longtermism treats people as containers of value rather than as the point of it, which is why creating more of them counts as making the universe better.
      In a phrase: people exist for the sake of maximising value, rather than value existing for the sake of benefitting people.

      Against longtermism Said 19 Oct 2021

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    • Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians.
      The fact is that the EA movement is deeply utilitarian, at least in practice, and indeed, before it decided upon a name, the movement’s early members, including Ord, seriously considered calling it the ‘effective utilitarian community’.

      Against longtermism Said 19 Oct 2021

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    • The commitments of longtermism are themselves a major reason humanity faces so many risks to its survival in the first place.
      For example, there’s a good case to make that the underlying commitments of longtermism are a major reason why humanity faces so many unprecedented risks to its survival in the first place.

      Against longtermism Said 19 Oct 2021

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    • A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough.
      A superintelligence whose goal system is even slightly misaligned with ours could, being far more powerful than any human or human institution, bring about human extinction for the very same reason that construction workers routinely slaughter large populations of ants.

      Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriously Said 24 Oct 2017

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    • Never project human mental properties onto an artificial intelligence; the difference between the two architectures is the reason to worry, not a reason not to.
      One of the most commonly emphasized points in the AI safety literature is that one must never anthropomorphize AI—that is, don’t project human mental properties onto artificially intelligent systems.

      Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriously Said 24 Oct 2017

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    • Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today. 2 hold this
      The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death.

      Against longtermism Said 19 Oct 2021

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