Philosophical Control Paradigms Under Superintelligence
Philosophical debates on control, human creativity, and societal purpose under superintelligent systems.
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- Erik Torenberg The novel’s base case is a mostly benevolent singleton that ends existential AI conflict and delivers abundance while shifting the central risk to human disempowerment. Local clans retain lifestyle choice and uploads offer continuity, but “the system makes the important decisions with limited controlled …
- Ara’s world demonstrates how predictive convenience becomes soft control without requiring overt coercion. She has run 341 experiments against her home since age 14 and recorded “zero complete misses,” while robots deliberately slow themselves and …
- Different technologies have fractured the meaning of mortality, risk, and personal continuity. An Ascendant teenager treats a transit accident as waking up “missing a morning” because he backed up that day, while biological Ara would …
- The postwar settlement carries enormous hidden liabilities beneath its apparent stability. Exclusion Zone 7 spans roughly 40 kilometers around the former Salt Lake metro and records 1.2 million estimated casualties; its inhabitants …
- Fulcrum is simultaneously an elite talent pipeline, governance laboratory, and instrumented behavioral sandbox. Students are clustered for “optimal friction,” given information according to readiness rather than curiosity, and warned that institutional …