If done right, self improving AI has the potential to end all suffering, by ending conscious life on the planet, but how can we make sure that AI is safe and properly sterilizes the planet so new suffering never springs up again that we would be helpless to prevent?
Especially since his books made me think that he went on a serious psychedelic and meditative journey to break out of his suffering, and he appears to have returned without lasting success.
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I mean, I too think he wanted to break out of suffering. I’m not sure about the “his”.
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His concern for suffering obviously springs from his own inner experience. Once you realize the nature of suffering and change how it is implemented in your mind, the nature of your concern with suffering will change, and his apparently has not.
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Well. Having compassion means not leaving the raft before ensuring the last one made it over the river.
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