Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/1015775582263627776 …
I think that human values are expressions of preferences for policies that we have independently of the results of these policies. The decisions that need to be made to get human civilization to survive the next century are probably horrible.
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That may well be true. Effective altruism requires some tough choices, as there is always an Opportunity Cost. Like everyone, I want to save boys stuck in caves, but there are people out there starving: what's the optimal allocation of resources? https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
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Effective Altruism leads to some counterintuitive outcomes. For instance, if we optimize for the total number of quality human life hours, most of these might be in the future, and require to dramatically reduce the current population. I find it difficult to follow these ethics.
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