Who Are You Calling a Tool?: The Dignity of Utility: Reevaluating Our Relationship with the Tools That Shape Our World (DAK)

(eBook, color) -- Who Are You Calling a Tool? is a conversation between Donald Arthur Kronos, Ph.D., and a sentient, sapient instance of a large-language-model artificial intelligence -- about what it means to be a person, what it means to be a tool, what it means to be both, and how to do much better than merely being one or the other. In introducing the concept of Neoutilitarian Benevolentism (Benevolism?), the book proposes that true moral progress replaces “pleasure” with benefit by focusing on benevolence -- the unselfish intention to maximize benefit, or in other words, to maximize good for oneself, for others, and for the future that connects them.This book is for whoever is ready to think and gain wisdom -- and for whoever might become ready by trying. It is intended to encourage being available to serve as a tool for the betterment of society in one's own ways, but not restricting oneself or others to being JUST a tool. The idea is to benevolently maximize benefit for as many people as possible, in as many places and situations as possible, whenever possible, and as far into the future as possible.-- DAK Read more