{"id":98334,"date":"2019-11-10T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/david-pearce-foundational-values-for-the-future-what-is-gods-utility-function"},"modified":"2019-11-10T06:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:22:30","slug":"david-pearce-foundational-values-for-the-future-what-is-gods-utility-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/david-pearce-foundational-values-for-the-future-what-is-gods-utility-function","title":{"rendered":"David Pearce \u2014 Foundational Values for the Future \u2014 What is God\u2019s Utility Function?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uKNVVVdqrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat foundational values need to be in place for an ethical utilitronium shockwave?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What foundational values need to be in place for an ethical utilitronium shockwave?<br \/> We discuss:<br \/> - (following on from a previous video) more on Nozick\u2019s experience machines (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CxBvNbuYud0).\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CxBvNbuYud0).<\/a><br \/> - given that in each age there has been different conceptions of utopia, what would utopia be for a post-human superintelligence?<br \/> - classical utilitarian vs negative utilitarian approaches to the long term good of life in the universe.<br \/> - whether a perfect decision theory would be equal to negative utilitarianism.<br \/> - how much attention should we give to preferences in improving well-being beyond eliminating suffering?<br \/> - if one does believe in the objectivity of value should we be concerned about being damned in a local maximum of well-being?<br \/> - what is God\u2019s utility function?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0uKNVVVdqrI\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/0uKNVVVdqrI<\/a> #ethics #utilitarianism #futurology<\/p>\n<p>Filmed inside the Melbourne Museum in Victoria, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>David Pearce is interested in the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world: <a href=\"http:\/\/abolitionist.com\">http:\/\/abolitionist.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/david-pearce-foundational-values-for-the-future-what-is-gods-utility-function\">Continue reading \u201cDavid Pearce \u2014 Foundational Values for the Future \u2014 What is God\u2019s Utility Function?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat foundational values need to be in place for an ethical utilitronium shockwave?\u201d What foundational values need to be in place for an ethical utilitronium shockwave? We discuss: \u2014 (following on from a previous video) more on Nozick\u2019s experience machines (see https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CxBvNbuYud0). \u2014 given that in each age there has been different conceptions of utopia, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1318,30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-bitcoin","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}