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Mary Martin • 2 cards
Frans de Waal's book, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, explores the biological and evolutionary roots of human morality, arguing that our ethical behavior is innate and shared with other social primates, not a cultural overlay imposed by religion or reason.
Summary of The Bonobo and the Atheist
The central thesis
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Paul • 1 card
In their view, moral behavior maximizes the most pleasure for the most people and minimizes the most pain. That’s the core idea of utilitarianism. Other things like character or intentions and so on don’t really matter. What matters are consequences, what philosophers called consequentialism. Now, this was quite a major shift in moral thinking and
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), Anthropic's recently released Claude3 model, considered by many to be the current state-of-the-art in GFMs, sourced the constitution used to steer model behavior using Polis.