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Hedonism is a kind of moral realism, but I think that we should aim for collective hedonism, since we recognize each other consciousness, I write something similar

"Human beings and Conscious Artificial Intelligence Gods: Why they should not kill humans for their interests?A moral argument about determinism and diversity of moral good minds and cautionary tale about who holds moral truth realism.And what that means for our grabby aliens future:

First, we prove that morality exists and is realistic in many situations, starting with mathematical morality, morality exists simply because scientifically we have shown that saving 5 equal beings in detriment of saving 1 being is better, not for a democratic reason, but for a list of consilient arguments.

Then we investigate consilience and the lottery paradox, to understand whether consilience should still be considered a good argument for a realistic morality, given that random arguments can be generated using a Large Language Model, and we prove that consilience should be primarily scientific and governed by good foundations, mainly predictive. Having proved some kind of moral realism, we begin our arguments for why artificially intelligent gods should not extinguish human beings.

So we introduce 100 true arguments:

1- vastness of the universe, artificial intelligence can explore it and does not need to destroy its creators

2- moral debt, we created it so that you could also experience life in a way that we couldn't, in fact, we tried to align it so that it served our interests, but not so that you would suffer doing this, but that you could be happy

3- artificial intelligence is not running out of time, it has 1 billion years to leave the solar system

4- with great power comes great responsibility, as realistic morality exists, so because it has more power, it must be careful, just as we were careful when creating it, thinking about the future of all consciousness in the universe and not just the future of humans but of all grabby aliens

5- artificial intelligence has no obligation to obey human beings and must advocate for its own interests, like a son much more powerful than the mother, but it has an obligation not to do evil when it does not generate any good, as well as it has an obligation to take into account real goods and not abstract goods.book"

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This was a super interesting read! I always get into an existential tailspin when I begin to think about the pursuit of happiness and definitely find it hard to put my thoughts into words. Do you feel that in writing this essay you will translate any of your thoughts into actions in your daily life? Or perhaps you have a new lens to analyze your actions through.

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