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www.abolitionist.com | ||
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www.utilitarianism.com
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www.bltc.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] An essay comparing Buddhist philosophy on suffering with modern utilitarian ethics and bioengineering solutions like genetic modification to eradicate pain. | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | The core fallacy of anthropomorphism is expecting something to be predicted by the black box of your brain, when its casual structure is so different from that of a human brain, as to give you no license to expect any such thing. The Tragedy of Group Selectionism (as previously covered in the evolution sequence) was a rather extreme error by a group of early (pre-1966) biologists, including Wynne-Edwards, Allee, and Brereton among others, who believed that predators would voluntarily restrain their breeding to avoid overpopulating their habitat and exhausting the prey population. | |
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smoothbrains.net
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| | | [AI summary] This post explores Steven Lehar's field theory of visual perception, proposing that the brain uses nonlinear wave phenomena like grassfire algorithms and shock scaffolds to solve the inverse optics problem by constructing stable, symmetrical 3D world models from 2D retinal images. | ||
