#davidchapman

As former AI researcher #DavidChapman puts it in Better Without #AI; "What we should fear is not intelligence as such, but sudden massive shifts of power to agents who may be hostile or callously indifferent. Technological acceleration can do that; but a new sort of AI is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause acceleration. Powerful new technologies are dangerous whether they are wielded by humans or AIs, and whether they were developed with or without AI." https://betterwithout.ai/fear-AI-power (3/3)

"... sacredness is a stance toward the world, not an inherent quality of some bits of it; ... adopting the stance that everything is sacred generally leads to better outcomes than the stance that nothing is sacred." #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview #sacredness

"Secular modernism rejects ethics based on self-denial, as Christianity and Sutrayana ethics both are. On the other hand, secular modernism is wary of the phrase 'beyond good and evil'. ('Didn’t Hitler say that?')" #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview (1/2) #ethics #Buddhism #SecularModernism

"Secular ethics is basically Christian ethics minus the self-denial. If Tantra has any ethics at all, it is not like that. I would say it simply has no ethics. I consider that a non-problem; it just means you have to take your ethics from somewhere else. However, some Buddhist teachers would disagree." #DavidChapman https://vividness.live/sutra-tantra-and-the-modern-worldview (2/2)