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Formerly de Pony Sum. A blog for philosophy, politics, political economy, psychology & more.
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The evil underground: An introduction (opens the original)
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The road to hell is paved with bad intentionsHow much do you know about the evil underground?It all started not long after Zarathushtra described the clash of the evil deity, Ahriman and the good deity, Ahura Mazda. A small group figured that since everyone was siding with Ahura Mazda, they ought to give the other guy a chance. Why? Why do anything? In the final analysis, why favour pleasure over pain, beauty over ugliness, right over wrong? Any position conceivable will be adopted by someone. B
Property, democracy and automation: pick two (opens the original)
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A lot of people imagine a society with fully automated labour as, more or less, exactly like this one. A system of liberal, democratic capitalism.But I don’t think it is likely you can have a stable society with:1. Private control of the means of production (property)2. Democracy (in a special sense I will explain below) and3. The full automation of labourThis Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my wor
AI doom, a guide for the perplexed (opens the original)
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Consequently, he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics— Maimonides, Guide for the PerplexedIn 2016, AlphaGo showed the power of neural networks by beating top human players at the game of Go. I was fascinated; it had always seemed to me that the main barrier to human-level machine intelligence was the capacity to work with vague and nebulous concepts. AlphaGo
How I would like to live (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedNothing new is said here, nor do I have any skill in composition. So I have no thought of benefiting others; I made this to steep my own mind. By this, at least, the surge of faith in me that moves me to cultivate the good is strengthened; and if someone else of the same disposition as mine should happen to see it, then it may have some point for them too<label class="hide-text" conten
Things I wrote that I like: a growing collection (opens the original)
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These are my favourite articles I’ve written. However at the moment I’m going back and revising some of my articles, mostly for greater clarity. Essays will be added to the list as revision is finished.In punishment abolitionism I outline why I think that in the (possibly very) long run our goal should be the abolition of all punishment.In For Human Dignity I anthologise some passages arguing collectively, for the dignity of all people, especially those forgotten.<
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