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[EDIT: I think the SIA doomsday argument works after all, and my objection to it was based on framing the problem in a misguided way. Feel f

Nick Bostrom's self-sampling assumption treats us as a random sample from a set of observers, but this framework raises several paradoxes. I

Summary Some preference utilitarians care about satisfaction of preferences even when the organism with the preference doesn't know that i

Summary I think there's a decent chance that governments will be the first to build artificial general intelligence (AI). International ho