More Lazy Employment Thinking: Jevons Paradox Edition
Invocations of the Lump of Labor Fallacy have recently been superseded by appeals to Jevons paradox in claiming that we shouldn’t worry about what AI progress will do to workers. As with the case of calling something a fallacy, a paradox also suggests that those who understand it are smarter and more sophisticated than those who don’t. Case in point is Einstein’s famous Twin paradox, which people love to throw around in discussions of space travel but is quite difficult to actually understand...
More Lazy Employment Thinking: Jevons Paradox Edition
Invocations of the Lump of Labor Fallacy have recently been superseded by appeals to Jevons paradox in claiming that we shouldn’t worry about what AI progress will do to workers. As with the case of calling something a fallacy, a paradox also suggests that those who understand it are smarter and more sophisticated than those who don’t. Case in point is Einstein’s famous Twin paradox, which people love to throw around in discussions of space travel but is quite difficult to actually understand...
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Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core
Part I: Avoiding Absorbing States
Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core
Part I: Avoiding Absorbing States
The Imperative for Moral Progress in the Face of Technological Acceleration
In science, theories eventually get discarded if they lack explanatory power. This mechanism acts quite slowly at times, as we can see in the case of string theory. But over the course of history it has worked quite well. Nobody spends time on the phlogiston theory of combustion. It is at best of historical interest but doesn’t inform current science or engineering. In philosophy on the other hand, texts continue to be studied, no matter how impractical, useless, or even detrimental the ideas...
The Imperative for Moral Progress in the Face of Technological Acceleration
In science, theories eventually get discarded if they lack explanatory power. This mechanism acts quite slowly at times, as we can see in the case of string theory. But over the course of history it has worked quite well. Nobody spends time on the phlogiston theory of combustion. It is at best of historical interest but doesn’t inform current science or engineering. In philosophy on the other hand, texts continue to be studied, no matter how impractical, useless, or even detrimental the ideas...
Abundance
The term abundance is being slung around a lot these days. First came the discussion that was kicked off by the recent eponymous book, which fell comically short of its title. Now we are deep into a debate on AI. On one side are proponents of massive AI expenditure arguing that if we get to artificial super intelligence then we will live in abundance. And so of course we should aim to get there as fast as possible. On the other side are those who see this simply as a cynical ploy to drive up ...
Abundance
The term abundance is being slung around a lot these days. First came the discussion that was kicked off by the recent eponymous book, which fell comically short of its title. Now we are deep into a debate on AI. On one side are proponents of massive AI expenditure arguing that if we get to artificial super intelligence then we will live in abundance. And so of course we should aim to get there as fast as possible. On the other side are those who see this simply as a cynical ploy to drive up ...
