David Hammersley

Am I right that @CosmicSkeptic can't be both a qualia realist and a value anti-realist??? First interview on my new channel! Link below and in my bio

@Philip_Goff "Direct access" to consciousness is assumption not fact. Recursive self-monitoring theory predicts meditated access: coarse-grained summaries of processing. Feels direct as introspective opacity hides mediation. Architectural feature, not metaphysical boundary 1/3

1. There are no high-welfare farms whatsoever. Getting killed at a very young age is very bad, and the fact that there are others who have it even worse doesn’t make it less bad. 2. If I had some clever scheme to kill people to save more lives total, you’d find some reason to tell me not to do that. Maybe the normal reasons, or maybe you’d be a sophisticated consequentialist who tells me about second-order effects, or what have you. The same applies here. I touch on these points in a recent post. open.substack.com/pub/morallawwi…

This is a great discussion by @elonmusk at the WEF in Davos on how Optimus will help the elderly. Our population is aging rapidly. Just the other day my grandmother fell and broke her hip. She lives by herself about an hour drive from me, so it's difficult to be there all the time. She was found on the floor laying for 5 hours. The only way we knew something was wrong was because she wasn't answering the phone, we had to drive an hour to see what happened. She refuses a caregiver who lives in the neighborhood to come in and check in on her, she insists that she doesn't need help. Optimus would be a huge lifesaver for her. She can still maintain her independence and have Optimus there to help her when she needs it. Optimus can adjust its help based on her personality and observing what she needs help with so she can still feel independent and active without all the dangers that come with being nearly 90 years old.