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”…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with various forms of mettic well-wishing. I caught myself spontaneously indulging in loving fantasies for others and realized the Brahma-Vihara (loving-kindness,…