Versión en español The voluntary and intentional creation of an Utilitarian Artificial General Intelligence (UAGI) (a kind of great automated global police that makes the …
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How to demonstrate sentience?
Versión en español Related article: How to recognize sentience? (2016) It is common to ask: how can sentience (the ability to feel) be demonstrated? Fortunately, …
Disadvantages of the measures
Versión en español This article warns, among others, of the risk of falling in love with measurement systems that seem very precise, for example, because …
Thoughts on negative utilitarianism
Versión en español “I teach one thing and one thing only: suffering and the end of suffering” –Gautama Buddha Imagine a world where everybody is …
Who wants to destroy the world?
Versión en Español “I hope the Russians love their children too” –Sting Spoiler: Yes, Russians love their children too. NU (Negative Utilitarianism) has been …
Experiments with human beings
Photo: Group of men who were test subjects in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments Versión en español. We live in times when painful and harmful experiments …
A vision of a world without money
Versión en español [This post is not about crypto money vs. government money. It’s suggesting another thing: a world without money at all.] If fiat-government …
On animal experimentation. In what cases is it ethical to experiment?
Versión en español Image: Young survivors [1] at the Auschwitz concentration camp [2], liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. This article is …
What the hell is “to emerge”?
Versión en español Emergentism is a very intuitive hypothesis, not devoid of logic. If with anesthesia or death or a good blow to the head …
Where are social organizations headed?
Versión en Español The survival capacity of so many organizations that have spent the last 50 years hardly altering their main lines of action despite …