The Future of Subjectivity

A recent talk by IEET intern Ed Miller. Ed’s description: “This is a systems perspective on the future of our civilization. I hope that by understanding how resilience allows systems to survive, and how those systems influence our subjectivity, we can build a better future.

By advocating the end of involuntary suffering for all sentient life, and “gradients of bliss,” I am borrowing David Pearce’s vision for the future direction of human civilization which transcends many of the myopic utopian scenarios of previous thinkers. This grand vision is needed to motivate us sufficiently to achieve true progress.

To my friends who believe that recursively improving artificial Intelligence is all that matters, let me just say that even if it is likely to happen, which I doubt, we have to worry about the social conditions from which it springs.”

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