#96 - The Nature of Consciousness
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
A super intelligence knows many things we don't understand, sees deep patterns in our behavior and extracts abstract features of our brain dynamics. It also has a deep knowledge of the cognitive biases that evolution has put into our cognitive self model. The conscious states of all sentient beings are much more frequently characterized by suffering and frustrated preferences than they would ever be able to discover themselves. So it's an ethical super intelligence, not only in terms of processing speed, but it comes to qualitatively new results about what altruism actually means.
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