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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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www.qri.org
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| | | | | There are at least some encouraging facts that suggest it is not too late to prevent a pure replicator takeover. | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | "It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand,... | |
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selfawaresystems.com
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| | | | | On March 19, 2008 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the meeting of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) on "AI and the Future of Human Morality". Great thanks to Drew Reynolds who filmed the talk, edited the video, and produced a transcript with the original slides. The video is available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1286459692350772178&hl=en The edited... | |
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www.steelsnowflake.org
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| | | Kant's moral philosophy has problems when applied to extreme real-world situations. This essay uses the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century to highlight some scenarios where Kant's ethical philosophy breaks down to reveal its limitations. In this context, I'll summarize his moral philosophy, including a look at the Categorical Imperative and his "Kingdom of Ends,' while showing how the violence of regimes like those of the Nazis and Soviets undermined Kant's ethical philosophy. | ||
