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Tag Archives: Ethics
Why do we need ethics and culture?
Why do we need ethics and culture? [ 15/6/20 ] For me, ethics is a subset of culture. Ethics seems to me to be some evolved approximation to a set of prescriptions on activities that are either required to be … Continue reading
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To a comment from Joe Brewer on Daniel’s Portal post
Comment from Joe Brewer on Daniel’s Portal post [ 6/4/20 Joe wrote – “… The collapses ARE inevitable—they are part of the self-organizing dynamics of pattern formation inherent to the globalized economy as it came to be structured.”] Yes, but … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, understanding
Tagged Abundance, Communication, complexity, cooperation, Economics, Ethics, freedom, future, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility, risk mitigation, understanding
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Quora – Don’t ethics just hold us back from achieving what we want?
Quora – Don’t ethics just hold us back from achieving what we want? [ 3/3/20 ] In one sense yes – that is entirely the point. From an evolutionary perspective, ethics is about the sorts of behaviours that allow large … Continue reading
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Quora – When, if ever, is it okay for humans to change the weather and physical landscape of Earth?
Quora – When, if ever, is it okay for humans to change the weather and physical landscape of Earth? [ 19/2/20 ] I agree with Jörg Sattle’s answer to this question. And I would add the dimension that yes certainly, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, AI, Climate change, complexity, cooperation, Ethics, Evolution, future, Morality, Responsibility, technology, understanding, values
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Quora – What are the current issues of the world?
Quora – What are the current issues of the world? [13/1/20] We have a rather large collection of issues in many different domains. The most important issues are in the realm of ideas and cultures. We must all start our … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, AI, Climate change, complexity, Ethics, freedom, future, Longevity, Morality, risk mitigation, understanding, values
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Quora – Do robots/AI deserve ‘human’ rights? If so, at what point could that happen, and what would be the deciding factors?
Quora – Do robots/AI deserve ‘human’ rights? If so, at what point could that happen, and what would be the deciding factors? As many others have written, as soon as a non-biological intelligence can make a case for its own … Continue reading
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Quora – Why is eugenics considered unethical?
Quora – Why is eugenics considered unethical? Lots of ways of considering this question. In one sense, it depends what you mean by eugenics. If you mean your own choice of your own mate, or any modifications you choose to … Continue reading
Quora – ethical consequences of immortality
Quora – What are the ethical consequences of immortality? Don’t agree with either of the other answers. It very much depends on what you mean by ethical? For me, my chosen highest values are individual life and individual liberty, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, AI, Communication, complexity, Ethics, Longevity, risk mitigation, technology, understanding, values
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Assault on ethics
The Assault on Ethics I seriously question the use of the term “the natural struggle for power”. As someone who has had a strong interest in the reality and logic of evolutionary biology for over 50 years, the common notion … Continue reading
Progressive Ethics
Project for a Progressive Ethics – Current Model DESCRIPTION OF THE DYNAMIC CHARACTER OF THE ETHICAL FRAMEWORK – ITS ANALOGY TO AN IMMUNE SYSTEM Hi Dil, I don’t see it that way. For me Ethics needs to be about supporting … Continue reading
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