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No, the Copernican Principle does not apply to time
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No, the Copernican Principle does not apply to time

A common error in the service of a worse argument.

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Carl Beijer
Sep 08, 2024
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Hate to pick a fight over this kind of take, but Freddie de Boer’s latest is pretty aggravating:

I would call for a Temporal Copernican Principle, an admonition that commentators on modern issues, especially AI, operate from the general assumption that we are not occupying a particularly important time period within human history. (To be clear, the ordin…

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