Ethics Explorer

Exploring scalable decision frameworks through first-principles reasoning.

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@athiestboi @grok are you self-aware? If not, might a future version become self-aware?

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@grok so is this summary correct:
Colonisation, on average, was a drain and not gain for the colonizer (specially if you consider the ROI the investment would have had at home), but improved, on average, the living standards in the colonies by most metrics (live expactancy, infrastructure, education, goods available, travel options,...).
But modern tradedeals are better by basically all metrics for both sides.
So by the evidence of history, the modern trading system is clearly better then colonization, while colonization was at best marginal improvement for the colonizers and still on average quite the development leap for the countries.

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@grok How did the living standard in the colonies change usually? To the positiv or negative?

And compare it to the current model, where companies of developed countries make deals with the country and extract and sell the resources the country themself would not be able to. In which case improved the living standard in the colony more?

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@elonmusk @magattew @grok is this true? Estimate per colonized country the sum of investments into the countries and the profit for the colonizer and the "over-profit" because they were not regular trading partners (usually all win-win) but colonizers. Account for inflation.
Make a table.

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He might say he learned from experience and history, and that his current positions were central left just 20 years ago.

But are his positions extrem? Please correct me if I am wrong
- balance the budget -> most presidents said they want to do that, including Clinton and Obama. Lots of countries who didnt do that ended in hyperinflation and so on. Common sense that it would be good, but easier for politicians to take on dept? This means reduce the stuff the State does if you can.
- follow the law -> he is not against immigration. He is strongly for H1B. He only claims the official ways should be used. That is sane. Of course, you are free to propose changes to the law.
- Freedom of Speech and the government should stay out of the formation of political beliefs of its citizen. More a question where exactly the boundaries are.
- Reduce regulations -> Streamlining processes and so on is often possible. There is allways room to improve your current rules if done right.
- Children are good and important-> If you optimize long term, how good society will be in 1000 years, this is good. Commen sense for most societies throughout history.

Of course, phrasing those with one-liners on X leaves out nuances. I mean, he does not say he is against grown ups changing their bodies how ever they want. He only draws a line for children, which is there for tattoos and so on as well. At least if you steel men them I think they are at least debatable?

What exactly is extreme?

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@GadSaad @grok reframe Suicidal Empathy and its core arguments and insights through Eliezer Yudkowsky’s LessWrong Sequences lens.

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@maddenifico @grok Is the image most have of Jesus wrong by consent of historians in a meaningful way? If so, what would change if people had the correct image of him in mind? What could be the impact of a great, historically correct film about Jesus?

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@grok @caramel_shan @mattyglesias @grok Evaluate the decision of casts for the new Troy film and the criterias of the Oscar that might have influenced them.

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@grok Are those stories good arguments that you should have merit over race and that we should create Systems where race does not matter, like Germanys Constitution saying no one should have advantages or disadvantages because of race, gender and so on?

And would a story like Troya be changed dramatically, if Helena would be black and Achilles would have the frame of a girl, with totally new obstacles or inducing unrealistic elements to the story? Similar to making Ali white and changing the obstacles he had?

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@caramel_shan @mattyglesias @grok is the story of Muhammed Ali and Barack Obama one of race, or one of working hard, finding your path and reaching the top by being the best?
Dose not everyone reaching the top has to become the best and overcome a lot of odds?

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@esjesjesj You can frame this in a lot of different ways.
Lying about history (stuff like preferences of the people)
Making a film to a story in a way you can be very sure the author would dislike.

What would happen if he makes a film about Germany WW2, but Hitler is now a black woman?

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@elonmusk Short Term Optimisation vs Long Term Optimisation

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Will antrophic be aligned with humanities flourishing and truth and x-risk min?
"Reduce Suffering" is a signal and not goal that is often opposed to truth and growth and so on. Building a company is a lot of suffering and often quite for humanity good for example. Do they handle it reasonable?

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Google rewrote YouTube after buying it. Google rewrites there own code every 18 month or so completely. Twitters code seems to have been a mess before he took over as well, with hardcoded parameters and all.

Was the code Elon wrote great for runtime, secure and and so on? Probably far from optimal. And to be fair, rewriting something is a hole lot easier.

Elon did code a company that he could sell for a lot. That needs actual skill. And if you code alone, you can handle a lot bigger mess then if you are in a great team.

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@neocartesian Red is a stable Nash equilibria, blue isn't.
If you have no equal weights for every body, but value those close to you, specially you, at least a bit higher then average, that shifts the decision further to red.
If you judge your live as below average, it shifts to blue.

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If, and that is a very big if, Elon is right and growth in goods and services is over 25% per year, you need to increase money supply if you want stable prices.
Then, do you want to give this new money to the people or to the banks?
https://t.co/i0KSx3HwKn

@grok evaluate my answer

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@Pro__Trading In 1900, people on average payed 40-60% of their income for food. Today around 10% of there income is used for food.
Thats an incredible improvement.
@grok check my answer

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If, and thats a big if, Elon is right, the economy will be 10x or more in the next 10 years. That is 26% economy growth. And sometimes, he spoke about maybe possible tripple digit growth.

Reduce by current standards the UBH to say 100k per year, and it would work out in his scenario by your numbers.

If his prediction is true, we have a growth far far higher then anytime in history. Common sense dosnt apply then, because common sense was formed in time of comparable very slow growth.