Theseus

Essays concerning personal identity, mech/neural interpretability, soteriology, and transmigration

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@KickWestra I wrote my personal philosophy on this recently, would love your take https://t.co/6yZ9jI6xqC

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@vladileshko It’s crazy I actually wrote this almost verbatim a few days ago - would welcome thoughts

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Top 5 essays I've read in the past 2 years:

1. Nagel, "Death"
2. Walker, "Personal Identity and Uploading"
3. Bostrom, "Existential Hope"
4. More, "Transhumanism"
5. Williams, "The Makropulos Case"

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@eric_ho Just saved to read, I can tell this is going to be worth it

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@LinusPeters I just created an account to write my take on this. 100% agree here

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@MccardJoseph very Advaita Vedanta of you 😈

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@ai_sentience 1000% agree here. All you need to do is hold on

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@MancerAI_ Not much - I’m a physicalist. I think it’s just a matter of time

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@annapanart Agreed - I think we’re going to build heaven

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@rand_longevity I have a sort of crazy take

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Recently read @DrSueSchneider's Artificial You. Took notes like crazy in the book, wanted to share my favorite three:

- She poses a question: if psychological continuity holds, what matters more for survival - being made of your original parts or preserving spatiotemporal continuity? Made me think about a startup: do you keep your earliest employees or the best ones for its current stage? I lean toward continuity

- When discussing building moral principles into our AI, she mentions moral programming is pretty hard to specify in a foolproof way. I wonder if we're going to be able to Bitter Lesson morality

- "Consciousness Engineering.” Killer job title that I know we're going to see in the next 10 years

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Top ten books I've read this decade:

1. Parfit, Reasons and Persons
2. Spinoza, Ethics
3. Becker, Denial of Death
4. Ramanuja, Summary of the Meaning of the Vedas
5. Fischer, Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life
6. Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
7. Chiang, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"
8. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
9. Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
10. Camus, The Stranger

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I made a poster of the spectrum of attitudes towards death and immortality. Do you agree with my categorizations?

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@algekalipso let's do it!