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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

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Utilitarianism and Utopia

i, think there's just a huge amount of uncharted territory in terms of what minds can be and do and see. And so i want to sort of chart that territory before we start making kind of big and irreversible decisions about what sort of civilization we want to build in a long term. I see a another maybe concerning part ofe utopia is thatyet, as you mention the piece, many, many of the worst edeologies in history have had elements of utopian thinking in them.

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