Thinking Machines' @LRudL_ explains the fundamental philosophical blind spot in Silicon Valley's approach to AI, and why it could eventually leave humans out of the equation: "The most important axis here I would describe as Bentham versus Mill. Bentham got a lot of things right. But he came up with the idea of the panopticon. He really focused on pleasure as the thing that is valuable." "Effective altruism in some sense is a very Benthamite philosophy. You achieve value by building these big…