does anyone really think the class "humans" can have a coherent anything, much less coherent extrapolated volition
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Tacit assumption of rationalism is that humans are rational in their essence and only contingently irrational due to
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accident of running on lousy hardware. We are shadows of our Platonic Ideal selves, who have tidy mathematical definitions.
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Benevolent AI could easily see which Ideal we each correspond to, and replace the corrupt wetware with that.
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Occurs to me this Neo-Platonist conception is straight-up Gnosticism in Voeglin’s sense!
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