Jack's New Ethos

Tag: peace

  • 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 Technological Sovereignty

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    The economy is not an eternal and infallible means of arranging opportunity in society. It crashes, it favors certain groups, it often pigeonholes the majority of the population into a technological feudalist society. Right now so few people can afford housing outright in North America that the “middle class” can no longer reasonably have a…

  • On Symbolic Engineering

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    A liberating thought passed through my mind again: Amovera. And with it, the entirety of what I was working on in theology was reduced again to objective reality, and I saw again the framework of Symbolic Engineering as the ideal mode of understanding ethics, religion, and politics. As my mind shifted to the new modus…

  • On Justice

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    Jack Neoveris
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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 Moral Temperance

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    Pragmatically, there are few arguments for moral excellence. We are not bee or colony animals, so it simply isn’t human to sacrifice ourselves wholesale for the greater good and think of that as a viable strategy. Now, we have jobs to keep and children to protect—survival is important in the average human ethos. Yet, without…