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Category: English
The incomprehension of mental suffering
Versión en español – I do not feel well. – Cheer up, man! – Thank you! I feel better… – I feel depressed. – Make …
Attributes, attitudes and behaviors to avoid existential and technological risks
Versión en español Without pretending to establish well-defined categories, but rather recognizing that they are diffuse and mixed, we can approximately say that the first …
Values, axiology and saved lives
Versión en español “Take care of happiness and the meaning of life will take care of itself” —David Pearce There are many things …
Posts by Jiwoon Hwang
Jiwoon Hwang renewed his domain http://jiwoonhwang.org/ until the year 2027, proof that he considered it very important. I don’t know until when will also the …
Definition of psychological suffering, physical suffering, psychological pleasure and physical pleasure
Versión en Español Software is sometimes defined as “everything that can be transmitted over a telephone line” (as opposed to hardware, which is everything that …
Does god exist?
Versión en Español “Certainly, a deity who creates living beings to torture them must, by definition, be perfectly evil. In other words, the Wise Lord …
Future suffering
Versión en Español “From a selfish point of view, there is nothing so valuable that it is worth the risk of being alive.” I consider …
How and why quantum computers
Versión en español Thanks to IBM, I learned how to program a quantum computer. In classical computers we have a general purpose circuit that allows …
Humanism
The key of the humanism of the future is 1) anti-substratism and 2) compassion: 1) No matter the substrate to generate awareness. No matter the …