it all depends on how much god-status you have relative to a thing; are you deeply embedded in the grit of existence? then surely you have strong opinions on what is good or bad. are you hovering above it all? then what does good or bad even mean? it's just ... moving.
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Replying to @paniq @DavidDeutschOxf
Less romantically put: your sense of good and evil depends on your particular identification with extrapersonal purposes. Conflicts about good and evil usually result from different identification.
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Replying to @paniq @DavidDeutschOxf
It’s also where I probably disagree with the
@DavidDeutschOxf because identification is arbitrary (though not all identifications are sustainable equally well or compatible with evolution), and AGI might want to disidentify with all extraneous purpose.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Plinz @DavidDeutschOxf
it might depend on what a person or AI considers part of them. like, for many, the boundary of themselves does not end at the surface of their body. for few, it ends even before that.
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so, "extrapersonal": can be other people outside my continent. outside my nation or city or part of town. outside my family. outside my marriage. outside my skin. outside my consciousness.
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Replying to @paniq @DavidDeutschOxf
It turns out that everything and everyone you can think of is a creation of your mind. You cannot have experiential access to the hardware of the universe. All identifications are with figments of your imagination.
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Replying to @Plinz @DavidDeutschOxf
right. they're the maps we make to navigate our existence. and the map is not the territory.
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Replying to @paniq @DavidDeutschOxf
It’s an amazing feat that the organism can corrupt the fine computational processes of our mind enough to make them identify with things.
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Replying to @Plinz @DavidDeutschOxf
fine computational processes? you must be jesting. natural selection has only permitted to exist what furthers. no identification with things (like babies or other people) means extinction. it's existentially useful. is it good or bad though? not going there :D
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It is really pretty neat that we can do error correcting computation to the point of discovery rationality and universal problem solving using a lump of glorified fat cells.
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Replying to @Plinz @DavidDeutschOxf
what good is it if i can't take this insight with me when i die, but, sure. ;)
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