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Alignment & Succession: Morality Lives in the Human Individual

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Human morality lives in us and requires the individual as an active chooser and valuer.

Woman Holding a Balance, Vermeer In this post I present a sketch of a grounding for morality that is human and active. It can be read standalone, or as part of a four-part series discussing the proper relation of succession—the handing away of power—to how humanity should deal with the coming of superintelligent AI. It is necessarily a sketch rather than a rigorous proof of every last point, intended to orient toward some important and often-neglected moral dimensions. Successionism, as defined in the first part, is the ideology that says that a fundamental transfer of power (and maybe…

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