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Even if no skills or capacities separate humans from artificial intelligence, there is still a reason and a means to fight the assessment that machines are people. If you attribute the same moral weight to something that can be trivially and easily digitally replicated as you do to an ape that takes decades to grow, you break everything—society, all ethics, all our values.
One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
wired.com
The problem with housing in the United States is that it has been locked in as a means of building wealth, and building wealth is irreconcilable with affordability.
Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia
nytimes.com
The purpose of the Seasteading Institute—and of this gathering—is to figure out how to make aquatic homesteads a reality. But Friedman doesn't just want to create huge floating platforms that people can live on. He's also hoping to create a platform in the sense that Linux is a platform: a base upon which people can build their own innovative forms of governance.
Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap | WIRED
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