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Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
The other big one will be rules relating to mortmain. If I can have an immortal AI that is an extension of my will beyond my death, we could end up with the kind of situation C S Lewis describes...
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My Core-I7 desktop with 16G RAm and terabytes of storage And if you do much more with all that power than access services run on cloud compute then you're not the normal person. I'm finding that even dumb simple...
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The horrors that will be available to those controlling the compute resource will be appalling, however it is likely to be something that gets sorted out within a generation or so - most probably, it'll be the elite that get...
Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
I'm not sure of the calculations here, does beaming with all the losses definitely outweigh space trucking batteries? How about if we assume an order of magnitude improvement in battery technology and extremely cheap space trucking, with rockets shuttling up...
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If the probe only signs things it's told to sign by the 'owner', then I don't think this is very different from just trusting certain people/organisations to sign blocks of transactions for you (proof of authority - enterprise ethereum, and...
Commented on Burn The Programmer!
It sounds especially mysterious if you mention that many of the sigils in your regex are in fact ancient ways of describing different characters that are entirely invisible....

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paws4thot commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
Fairly certain you're talking nonsense. "$title is a work of fiction" is not an instruction to ignore it but a statement of context. Also, ancient Egypt and ancient Persia have been primarily desert and mountains back into the Stone Age (basic source Wikipedia; secondary sources lots)....
waldo commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
Presumably there will be no equivalent crime to dumping raw sewage into the ecosystem, since the only actual ecosystem in transhuman-land will be dedicated to maintaining the transhumans....
Damian commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
Still, I think there's something to "Maximise utility!" that does get to the main point of ethical conduct. There are several problems with several ways of formulating that principle into concrete activities, including problems with the concept of using a principle as a rule for defining activities in the first place, but (like Singer himself) I'm not convinced that any of those problems are totally unsolvable....
Moz commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
Yeah, the stuff Nick linked to is more about the fine print of how EA works, but I get hung up on the fundamentals. Sure, in theory more people each consuming much less would work, but we have the whole capitalist system underlying global politics saying fuck that, more consumption is not just better, it's necessary. So far the "more" side isn't so much winning as pretty convincingly portraying itself as the only possibility. EA says "do that, but also donate" which is classic liberalism, in the sense of "don't change the system, decorate it to look nicer". The question...
arrbee commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
A convenient side effect of "reintroducing" land predators in Scotland is to provide land owners with a legal justification for denying public access; it could eventually lead to a new round of highland clearances. Not to mention the side effects - bringing back sea eagles is having a serious impact on the golden eagle population....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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