Jack's New Ethos

Tag: history

  • On Western Culture

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    It can be said that our weakest front has been the conservative side of things in the political spectrum. For Western culture is so nuanced and has a history so deep and complex that it is easy to lose sight of who we are if our backgrounds are indeed from Western civilization. From the philosophers…

  • On AI Superalignment

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    Autonomous superintelligence isn’t that far away. In the next decade, we can expect to have a machine that is given agency and is more intelligent than us—a machine that has the capacity to act and the ability to do things beyond our comprehension. This leaves us with a major problem—one of seemingly impossible nature: how…

  • On the World

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    The world is what it is, there ought to be no denying that. A grand chemical reaction, a giant mixer of intentions and powers acting upon each other trying to minimize risk while increasing their powers as much as possible. It’s a grand tapestry of blood, flesh and steel, longing for softness and grace but…

  • On Archetypes

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    Our thought forms are biased based on patterns that fit into our taste profile for symbolic structure, and I see these structured thought forms as archetypes which are based not on some transcendent reality beyond our awareness, but are built upon the hidden factors that lead to and construct the human condition. Over evolutionary time,…

  • On Rights and Duties

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    Delegation of responsibility is simply how our society allows for more people to do more things and increase the technological advantage of craft. The more technology develops, the more focused people need to become to manage the complexity, and the less people need to generalize to survive. There are then both positive and negative incentives…

  • On Justice

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    A safe and secure society does not come about on its own, and it is not as simple as keeping people safe from bodily harm either. For there to be a just society, there needs to be a philosophy of what aspects of the human condition we protect, and how we go about making that…

  • On Amorvera

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    Linguistic Anthropology informs us that meaning is crafted by human cultures. This means that before human culture crafts meaning as a mode of assigning values to concepts and things, there is no meaning, no value, to anything. The world is then just an absurd chemical reaction, without any intelligence or purpose behind any of its…

  • On Freedom

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    Humanity’s ability to restructure our behaviors is what gives us our advantage in resource acquisition throughout evolutionary time. Though we can format ourselves and grow comfortable in that format, it is human to radicalize and change behaviors when our resource acquisition process is threatened. I’m not sure if this is instinctual or cultural, but it…

  • On Subterfuge

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    Nations are loosely collected, if not rather diffuse, groupings of corporations that don’t necessarily have a common geopolitical objective. Corporations can be bought out quite easily in their interests, as can politicians, as can grassroots movements. The Chinese have grown quite adept at this practice—I know this, after all, I am a Canadian. Algorithms can…

  • On Sufficient Knowledge

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    Jack Neoveris
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    Between losing focus and grasping an idea is this wandering state of observation. It is as if the mind is just taking in the shape and form of a concept and noting it, not trying to interpret it or grasp it. It’s kind of like when someone is teaching you to put together a machine…