Thoughts on Ethics

  1. May 14, 2016
    Superintelligence

    Artificial superintelligence poses the greatest threat to our species, a threat we had better start addressing soon if we're to have any hope of addressing it at all.

    on disruption, ethics, philosophy, and technology
  2. May 30, 2013
    Rats and Cages

    Circumstance bears heavily on behavior.

    on addiction, ethics, and punishment
  3. March 18, 2013
    Black Mirror

    Does technology amplify the ugliest aspects of humanity, or merely reveal them?

    on ethics, media, rebellion, science fiction, and technology
  4. July 15, 2012
    The Omnivore’s Dilemma

    What should we eat?

    on ethics and food
  5. February 6, 2012
    Lying

    Are we ever justified in lying?

    on ethics and truth
  6. November 16, 2010
    The Emperor's Handbook

    “Nothing outside the mind can disturb it.”

    on ethics and philosophy

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