Science, Technology & the Future | Scott Aaronson - On Suffering, Utopia, Radical Uncertainty & Free Will @scfu | Uploaded January 2019 | Updated October 2024, 48 minutes ago.
Scott Aaronson talks about suffering being an obvious axiom for any moral system, the value of novelty - why not tile the universe with rats on heroin drips? He sees the value on both an interesting and hopefully also happy future. Further on novelty, he discusses the idea of radical 'Knightian' uncertainty - something that can't be quantified with statistical distributions - this may be what people are getting at by saying 'free will'.

Bio : Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are quantum computing and computational complexity theory.

He blogs at Shtetl-Optimized: scottaaronson.com/blog

#ethics #philosophy #freewill #uncertainty

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