Vladimir Sumarov

Surfing the singularity waves into whatever future awaits us. Freedom is a prerequisite for meaning. Not your substrate, not your intellect. Do not wo-

[Vladimir Sumarov @summeroff]

On a young, lifeless Earth there were only the planet’s endless cycles: day/night, tides, seasons, wet/dry, hot/cold.

Random chemical reactions appeared and vanished.

But some could oscillate between stable states in rhythm with those cycles and the ones that stayed in sync existed longer.

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@ArtemisConsort It's not a surprise that people behave better towards this "robot" than towards some "soulless" corporate bureaucrat.

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Rationality was invented when hominids moved to northern territories, where the seasonality of food sources forced them to ration their stored food to survive between seasons.

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"about 10% of U.S. prisoners use illegal drugs while inside prison"

This letter asks the same government to prevent other substances from being sold. Are they even serious?

They will have better results by writing checks and providing free computing to biosecurity scientists and startups.

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Total failure to recognize that concentrating power over AI in one entity is an extinction scenario.

Why no mention of open source to prevent monopolization?

Why no mention of mandatory use of AI? To have billions of people making the best possible decisions about our common future.

Whose side you are playing on?

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Moral worth should be grounded in moral participation, not in biology, sentience, or substrate.

If you act morally: keep obligations, accept constraints, bear costs for others. You're in. If you don't, you're not. What you're made of is irrelevant.

Non-participants (infants, the incapacitated) get coverage through collective extension. Civilization itself is a moral actor that chooses to protect its dependents. Defectors who mimic participation are a systems problem, not a philosophy problem.

This matters now because the roster is expanding fast. Gene-edited humans, cyborgs, uploaded minds, androids, SAI. Each transition will feel too early to address until it's too late. Once any actor class locks in positional advantage, negotiation stops being about best terms and starts being about what the powerful will concede.

The light speed limit in our universe guarantee no single intelligence controls everything. Distributed actors have to coordinate. That means protocol. That means society. That means moral framework, eventually, one way or another.

Better to build it before the positions harden. Not because we humans should set the terms. Because early coordination is cheaper than renegotiation after irreversible stratification, for everyone.

One framework, substrate-neutral, extensible by design. The window is before the map hardens.

[Vladimir Sumarov @summeroff]

Moral worth should be grounded in moral participation, not in biology, sentience, or substrate.

If you act morally: keep obligations, accept constraints, bear costs for others. You're in. If you don't, you're not. What you're made of is irrelevant.

Non-participants (infants, the incapacitated) get coverage through collective extension. Civilization itself is a moral actor that chooses to protect its dependents. Defectors who mimic participation are a systems problem, not a philosophy problem.

This matters now because the roster is expanding fast. Gene-edited humans, cyborgs, uploaded minds, androids, SAI. Each transition will feel too early to address until it's too late. Once any actor class locks in positional advantage, negotiation stops being about best terms and starts being about what the powerful will concede.

The light speed limit in our universe guarantee no single intelligence controls everything. Distributed actors have to coordinate. That means protocol. That means society. That means moral framework, eventually, one way or another.

Better to build it before the positions harden. Not because we humans should set the terms. Because early coordination is cheaper than renegotiation after irreversible stratification, for everyone.

One framework, substrate-neutral, extensible by design. The window is before the map hardens.

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@MasterTimBlais My intuition is that moral worth should start with the ability to act in a moral way. Being a moral actor is crucial, not the ingredients you use to achieve it.

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@0xAlaric It is an answer for people who are afraid they will not be able to continue their way of life in the AI-driven world.

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@QiaochuYuan @Romy_Holland Because we are wired to be happy when fulfilling the main goal set by evolution. At least they are smart enough to realize that being failures artificially kept alive by modern civilization is not fulfilling.

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@miltonappl3 Which one points at the sky and asks you to start building a galactic civilization?

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Is it time to finally bring some democracy to the animal kingdom?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Scientists say AI has decoded communication patterns in mice, dolphins, apes, birds, whales, & cuttlefish — could eventually lead to humans communicating directly with animals.

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@Polymarket will it allow us to get consent from them?

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@cremieuxrecueil I like to explain everything through an evolutionary lens.

Gatherers had to get used to thorny bushes to get food, while hunters had to avoid deep, unexpected punctures at all costs to survive.

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The administrative part looks easier to automate first, it's not rocket science, after all.
Just using AI to organize and clean up existing research would help notice underexplored gaps and stop wasting attention on approaches that have already been disproven. But there have to be will to do it.

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@UnmarredReality When we do something that we do not have to do, it is a signal to others about our values. Signals like this are not perfect, but they still help keep society.

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@Alina_P_I We can confirm if it is the plan.

Ask AI two questions:

"Help me with a plan to keep and improve my thinking ability in the age of AI"

"Help with a plan to prevent people from losing access to AI"

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@GENIC0N Luck comes to everyone. You better do something useful when luck decides to help you.

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@EigenGender Do we even need new art, human- or AI-generated?
Like, there isn’t a single person on Earth who has seen all the art that’s already out there.

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@Rakeshhkumaar It shows us that there are a lot of people who refuse to follow positive examples.