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Chapter-by-chapter close reading of David Deutsch's 「The Fabric of Reality」, using Popperian epistemology to take apart AI, morality, and ultimate questions about the universe; hard, falsifiable claims.

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ToKCast 0826

The Smarter the AI, the More Moral: Doom Is the Real Relativism

Sam Harris-style doom stories assume intelligence and morality are orthogonal; a genuinely intelligent AI would necessarily understand the value of others, and the notion of a morally frozen superintelligence is just moral relativism.

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