Comment by nwienert
8 hours ago
Life's unfair, avoiding power concentration is a decent principle.
If you grow up in the right place at the right time, how much should you be in control of everyone else's life?
8 hours ago
Life's unfair, avoiding power concentration is a decent principle.
If you grow up in the right place at the right time, how much should you be in control of everyone else's life?
There is no "should" there are only "is" or "is not"
The universe has no need to be fair.
Sure, but almost everyone already knows this. It’s not hugely relevant in a discussion about how things could be better.
It says that we have to fight for whatever rights we think how things "should" be, they're not just gonna happen.
I think people, broadly, have driven life to be fairer, and that we should continue to do so
There are evolutionary benefits to groups that cooperate and improve fairness internally.
But if an AI surpasses humans in every way, is there any evolutionary benefit for the AI to cooperate with humans?
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This is how you get the french revolution.
> The universe has no need to be fair.
Human societies have a strong need for fairness, however. Unfair societies collapse.
I mean of course the universe has no need to be fair - that's a frankly asinine observation in the context of a discussion about social policy and resource distribution.
the universe doesn't require opposition to slavery either but I'll be bold and assume you oppose it anyway
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