I’m Rob Long. I work on AI consciousness and related issues.
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Welcome, David! What sort of math are you looking to level up on? And do you know what AI safety/related topics you might explore?
Thanks for this! People interested in the claim (which Korsgaard takes to be a deficiency of utilitarianism) that for utilitarians “people and animals don’t really matter at all; they are just the place where the valuable things happen”, might be interested in Richard Yetter Chappell’s [1] paper “Value Receptacles” (pdf). It’s an exploration of what this claim could even mean, and a defense of utilitarianism in light of it.
[1] Not incidentally, a long-time effective altruist. Whose blog is great.
Interesting—what sort of thing do you use this for? what sort of thing have you done after rolling a 2?
I imagine it must be things that are in some sense ‘optional’ since (quite literally) odds are you will not end up doing it.
I’m very intrigued by “prosthetic human voice meant for animal use”! Not knowing much about animal communication or speech in general, I don’t even know what this mean. Could you say a bit more about what that would be?