rationalism AI cultist creeps

Which is just a fancier way of saying "the end justifies the means". But your chosen formulation of it immediately suggested the thought that consequences are open-ended, extending into all futurity, and therefore are impossible to measure

I think "the end justifies the means" is a bit more slippery - it's often used to weigh one set of consequences more heavily than another, e.g. bombing hiroshima to end the war. And, well we're talking about human actions and human consequences, I think its fair to restrcit it to humanly measurable ones.

Even human consequences extend indefinitely. Identifying an end point is an arbitrary imposition upon a ceaseless flow, the rough equivalent of ending a story with "and they all lived happily ever after".

so do you never consider the consequences of your actions or do you have trouble getting up in the morning?

I am not engaged in a program of identifying a universal moral framework based upon the consequences of my actions when I get up in the morning, which certainly makes it easier to choose what to wear.

touche!

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incredible

Read this a few days ago. As AI burns through staggering amounts of money with no reasonable use case so far, all your fave fascist tech moguls are gonna hitch themselves to a government gravy train under a Trump administration (gift link): https://wapo.st/3wllikQ