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I think the basic premise is correct, that suffering is by far the most important determinant in where utilitarianism takes us in the long term. Adding the good has far fewer world…

It is interesting to compare this interpretation of Aristotle on happiness with the transhumanist take on happiness, pleasure, and suffering known as the Hedonistic Imperative. Whe…

A lens to look at this through is the struggle for control over the population. The competing factions in the Middle Ages were very different from those now - so the manifestations…

This manages to get lost in its own trees. From a reductionist perspective: - Intelligence greater than human is possible - Intelligence is the operation of a machine; it can be re…

Related topic: could the Romans have usefully practiced public key encryption, say for very small key sizes?

I just wrote up some thoughts on the topic: https://www.exratione.com/2017/10/in-search-of-the-spark-whe... Essentially, the question asked is just the setup to watch someone appro…

I feel that those who argue that any approach other than running human brain emulations and then reverse engineering them or speculatively modifying them is the most likely way to …

Some humans are likely to become more powerful than other humans some day. Most such humans will by default develop instrumental subgoals that conflict with other human interests. …

Worrying about lack of variability in the human condition, as the author does here, seems like a strange fear in the face of the future ability to edit, copy, and amend the functio…

Run it in AWS. They keep their IP ranges comparatively clean. Other hosting services, yes, you may as well not bother. I haven't found another one yet that is reliable enough at ke…

Many phone companies will allow you to (a) add an annotation to your account to declare the number you are using should never be ported to another company, and (b) add a password t…

There are a factions in the strong AI community whose members espouse the idea that a planned economy would become feasible given greater computational capacity and better software…

This would be somewhere in the Vingean Scholastics portion of the Venn diagram I proposed a few years ago: https://www.exratione.com/2012/01/the-future-of-the-venture-... The futur…

It is a strange journey that we'll all be going on, just through the incremental process of desiring and adopting improvements. https://www.exratione.com/2017/04/blind-upon-the-eve…

I've made a similar argument here. The goal of elimination of suffering leads to a future very different from the world we inhabit today, but definitely better for it. A world of l…

I think this misses another equally important reason, which is to do your part to help build the gift economy upon which we all rely in our day to day work. Near every common solut…

A while back, after some months of frustration with significant levels of S3 API failures in bulk that never made it to the status page, I ended up writing a tool that continually …

I think the general consensus in the futurist community is that this vision requires molecular nanotechnology, which means first sorting out the basics of mechanosynthesis in carbo…

Everyone has been put in the position of coming to a dead halt on some aspect of the work that just won't yield. Or at least not for the combination of you, your knowledge, and you…

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While I think this particular sketch isn't going anywhere without a lot more work on concrete implementation details, I do believe it is well worth spending time on what a working …

I've worked with a group using Flynn to host a score of internal apps. It required one full time developer to keep it running, and saved a bunch of time and effort for the people m…

Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes, with experience in remote projects. Willing to relocate: For the right position. Technologies: architecture, team lead, security processes, devops…