Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Hilary Greaves is a philosopher who co-developed longtermism, the ethical framework arguing that because the future could contain vast amounts of value, present efforts should prioritize existential risk reduction and far-future outcomes over near-term welfare. In this course's readings, Greaves appears primarily as part of the intellectual genealogy of effective altruism and the rationalist movements that have shaped AI safety discourse, particularly in how longtermism has been leveraged by AGI-focused organizations to frame themselves as safeguarding humanity while potentially obscuring present harms and power consolidation.

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Timnit Gebru and Emile 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…The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | our current understanding and imagination” (Goertzel, 2010). | | | Rationalism | An ideology that…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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