I really liked this essay. It poses some interesting questions, but it's short and it doesn't try to do too much. There is overlap between pg's ideas and what

I really liked this essay. It poses some interesting questions, but it's short and it doesn't try to do too much. There is overlap between pg's ideas and what in the classical tradition is called Natural Law Theory. PG may or may not be interested in drawing out the connection, but since he references Aristotle I have to believe he is at least aware of a touch point. To give a distilled definition, Natural Law Theory is the application of the laws of nature to rational creatures. In the context in which NLT developed, the only free rational creature was the human being. But both AI development, and concepts from evolution through natural selection, potentially allow us to apply aspects of the theory to different rational agents.