Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Hilary Greaves is a philosopher best known for developing longtermism alongside William MacAskill, the ethical framework that prioritizes reducing existential risks and maximizing value in the distant future over immediate humanitarian concerns. In this course's context, Greaves's work enables a critical examination of how longtermist reasoning has shaped AI safety discourse and effective altruism's approach to technological governance, particularly how framing AGI development as a safety issue can obscure corporate power consolidation and accountability gaps. Her influence appears primarily through her co-authored longtermist foundational arguments, which the readings use to trace how abstract future-oriented ethics have become leveraged within AI governance debates.

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Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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Longtermism was born when EAs reasoned: If our aim is to do the most good possible, and if the future could contain astronomical amounts of “value,” then we should focus on the far future rather than the present (Greaves and MacAskill, 2019…| | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | our current understanding and imagination” (Goertzel, 2010). | | | Rationalism | An ideology that emerged from the LessWrong website, founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2009. Rationalists focus on …Framing the AGI agenda as a safety issue allows companies working toward it to describe themselves as “AI safety” organizations safeguarding humanity’s future, while simultaneously creating unsafe products, centralizing power, and evading a…

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