baguette swordfights, and whatever else our weird little brains can conjure. Existential dread doesn’t stand a chance against a good meme. Bonus points if it involves a sentient Sfork.
What criteria must an artificial intelligence (AI) satisfy to qualify for moral standing? My starting point is that sentient AIs should qualify for moral s
By foregrounding cognitive processes and the role of the body therein, you lose sight of what it is like for Adam and Beth to be in this moment as sensing sentient beings. What about their experiences in the physical envi- ronment, pure and simple? Their sense of self and being, their ...
We dictate how we run our own lives, and they way we run them defines us. Integrity is doing the right thing versus the wrong thing. People, if nothing else, can always have their pride, their integrity. It is something that means a lot to some people and then nothing to others. ...
Anthropomorphizing.A lot of alignment research hypothesizes AGI. This can cause people outside the field to refer to the existing systems as sentient, which assumes the system has more power than it does. For example, Paul Christiano, former head of alignment at OpenAI, defines alignment as ...
Central to Mahayana thought is the ideal of being a Bodhisattva-one who delays entering final nirvana in order to assist other beings. Instead of pursuing personal release from the cycle of rebirth (saṃsāra), practitioners vow to bring all sentient life toward enlightenment. This concept align...
they seemed unimportant. He matter-of-factly described them, as he might talk about an ordinary person. On the other hand, he did NOT criticize them, or any other belief. It is clear from various sutta references that he viewed gods as sent...
Some sounds not created by sentient beings could potentially be interpreted as music if they, as I mentioned in my last message, have a pattern to them which we find pleasurable or interesting, and/or their pattern somehow seems to create a message interpretable by our emotional, as opposed ...
What defines a being? A being is defined by its essence of life or existence, applicable to all living entities. 7 What role does personhood play in ethics? Personhood is crucial in ethics, as it involves considerations like consciousness, self-awareness, and the capacity for moral judgment, ...
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics: Breed Class; sort; kind; - of men, things, or qualities. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? This courtesy is not of the right breed. Race A large group of people distin...