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Will & Meaning in Living Beings - Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University
The DemystifySci Podcast
The Paradox of Freedom of Choice
I feel like if you expand people's ability to be compassionate, you also expand their ability to do great evil at the same time. It's a profound kind of paradox that when you raise that level of agency, they can choose to do terrible stuff. We already know what it's like to make high-level intelligences that we have zero control over. And they're going to change our world and do things to each other, good or bad and whatnot. That already exists.
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