Book review: Xenosystems
A blog post by Jessica Taylor, Unstable Ontology, dated 16 September 2024. Post dated September 16, 2024, with September 17, 2024 also shown (update).
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- Book review: Xenosystems Unstable Ontology (Jessica Taylor's blog); the post says it was also posted on LessWrong · published 2024-09-16 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 b526d3872d55a148171ec535183d7987b11f178ba5b394d2a88a8f739082f0bc). Blog post dated September 16, 2024, with a second date September 17, 2024 shown (update).
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- The growth of intelligence as its own endTaylor's review of 2024 reports that Land's Xenosystems posts oppose what Taylor calls “the implied claim” of those Land calls “orthogonalists”, that “values are transcendent in relation to intelligence”, and hold that “Intelligence, to become anything, has to be a value for itself”.2024-09-16 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reportingInspect claim & evidence ↗The growth of intelligence as its own end: propositions page →
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- The growth of intelligence as its own endTaylor's review of 2024 states that she rejects orthogonality “as stated by Bostrom” and is “inclined to agree” with Land that struggle toward intelligence optimization is “immanently ‘good’”, while finding his “Stupid Monsters” argument not strong against the theoretical possibility of a “VNM paperclipper”.2024-09-16 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗The growth of intelligence as its own end: propositions page →
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