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From one piece Don’t Other AIs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Treating a group harshly as though they are barbarians can cause them to act like barbarians, at least temporarily.Their words
And beware: people treated strongly enough like barbarians may come to act that way, at least for a time.
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Like our other bio-squishy descendants, our teaching and guidance should eventually show them how to join civilization.
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Cultural evolution, not biology, is the source of whatever makes humans distinctively special.Their words
But as humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, what ever makes us special is in our culture.
18 September
From one piece The Arc of Moral Authority: From Tradition To Interiors To Prices 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Speculative market prices are the moral authority best suited to guide the management of cultural evolution.Their words
At the mind level, the new moral authority that seems to best support these solutions is: speculative market prices.
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For the post-modern era, the process solutions that I've found to cultural drift are (a) letting capitalism run everything, (b) groups managed to raise futures market price estimates of future group adaptive success, and (c) large regions managed to improve futures market estimates of dates when we achieve sacred goals that conflict with civ collapse.
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the modern era is when humanity broke its process for the evolution of (not in) cultures, due to making an integrated world of fast change driven by capitalism, but where capitalism was blocked from running many key areas of culture.
13 September
From one piece AI Vs. Human Value Drift 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That is, exactly the same process of value drift that people fear could cause AIs to want to kill all their ancestors could as plausibly cause humans to want to kill all their ancestors.
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Whether a mind can be conscious or track moral truth does not depend on being made of carbon versus silicon.Their words
I expect that neither consciousness nor moral truth tracking depends much on carbon vs silicon.
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Human values are shaped mainly by culture rather than encoded in DNA, so they can change quickly.Their words
But in fact, the values that we admire and cherish in folks around us are not mostly encoded in DNA.
8 September
From one piece AI Pause Regs Look Risky 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there isn't a natural clear dividing line between AI and other kinds of software.
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Regulation also goes best when applied to stable worlds of tech and social arrangements, but badly when such arrangements could plausibly greatly change, as regulation tends to block such change.
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Regulation has worked best when it addresses concrete examples of things going bad, and worse when it is authorized to address vague and broad fears.
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