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Aligning machine goals with our own involves three unsolved problems: making machines learn them, adopt them and retain them.
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0
Studies have shown that while such results-based approaches can deliver progress in the short term, in the long term they risk collapse. Two academics from Oxford studying the National Health Service in the UK recently remarked:
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
By tapping preexisting intuitions and translating information into mind-friendly formats, it’s possible to hone people’s statistical reasoning. Hone we must. Risk literacy is essential for doctors, judges, policymakers, and others who hold our lives in their hands. And since we all live in a world in which God plays dice, fluency in Bayesian
... See moreSteven Pinker • Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
In his important book After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre famously says, “I cannot answer the question, ‘What ought I to do?’ unless I first answer the question, ‘Of which story am I a part?’”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
and present danger to the future of liberty.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
So how could social labs help avert this apocalypse? There are three strategic responses based on the ideas presented in this book—stabilization, mitigation, and adaptation. Again, these are not silver bullets, but they demonstrate that practical responses are well within our means.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Two prominent philosophers proved to be especially influential members. The first was Michael Sandel, a Harvard professor who is the contemporary successor to John Rawls in defining the concept of justice. At the time, he was writing an essay titled “The Case Against Perfection: What’s Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic
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