Tag: Soverignty

  • On AI Superalignment

    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 Technological Sovereignty

    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

    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 Rights and Duties

    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

    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 Subterfuge

    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…