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Posted onDecember 20, 2024December 25, 2024Mind Bubbles

The Sweet Simplicity of Good and Evil

by zariuq

In my study of ethics and developmental models, I realized that the notions of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ can be very simply grounded in character traits,…

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Posted onOctober 24, 2024April 7, 2025Mind Bubbles

White Mirror: A Progressive Eutopian Optimist’s Take on Black Mirror

by zariuq

I’ve seen a few Black Mirror episodes, and while they were cinematically good, I felt disappointed by the tendency to focus on “obvious failure modes”…

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Posted onSeptember 15, 2024September 15, 2024Mind Bubbles

Reflections on AGI and AITP 2024

by zariuq

My Ph.D. thesis was accepted Nov 29, 2023. This year I felt inspired by some prolific scholars whose published content is, imo, less rigorous than…

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Posted onMarch 7, 2024April 2, 2024Mind Bubbles

Dark Goals and the Paperclip Maximizer

by zariuq

Much discussion on Beneficial General Intelligence focuses on the appropriate goal choice to amplify the probability that AGI systems prove beneficial and not very harmful.…

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Posted onFebruary 28, 2024September 11, 2024Mind Bubbles

Beneficial AGI Viewed from the Ethical Paradigms

by zariuq

With the advent of proto-AGI systems and accelerating progress, many a folk appear to be freaking out at the lack of guarantees AGI will roll…

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Posted onAugust 22, 2023November 5, 2024Mind Bubbles

Formal Ethics Ontology Worklog 2

by zariuq

The first edition was quite long, so this time, I’m going to write as I go. It turns out that writing as I go becomes…

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Posted onJuly 3, 2023March 3, 2024Mind Bubbles

Why Much AI Ethics Lore is Highly Unethical

by zariuq

For the purposes of this article, I’ll adopt a traditional simple virtue-based rule-of-thumb to eyeball the morality of an entity or complex of behaviors: is…

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Posted onJune 13, 2023November 5, 2024Mind Bubbles

Formal Ethics Ontology Worklog 1

by zariuq

Preamble In Virtue Ethics Qua Learning Theory, I fleshed out the basic ethical principles, paradigms, and considerations in connection with (reinforcement) learning theory. My definition…

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Posted onOctober 11, 2021October 11, 2021Mind Bubbles

Virtue Ethics Qua Learning Theory

by zariuq

tl;dr – I have converted to virtue ethics because it is tractable and can embed consequentialism and deontology. Moreover, I have realized that ethics is…

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Posted onAugust 26, 2021August 26, 2021Mind Bubbles

Conflicts: Intent and Perception

by zariuq

Sometimes people call me a troll even though I have no such intent! Who’s right? And does a lie have to be intentional? — or…

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