For the purposes of this debate, radical freedom refers to the belief that everyone has the ability to alter their beliefs, desires and attitudes. This is often contrasted with the view that beliefs, desires, and attitudes are fixed elements of who we are, imposed on us by our biological makeup and the environments in which we are brought up. 

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a regional economic community headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. SADC has 15 member states: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, the DRC, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

SADC holds some of the largest deposits of critical minerals in the world. These include 85% of the world's platinum reserves, 51% of the world's cobalt reserves, up to 41% of the world's chromium reserves, and vast reserves of manganese, graphite, copper, lithium, and rare-earths.

Creed is a technology that can reliably evaluate individuals’ underlying character traits, including honesty, empathy, cruelty, courage, malice, intelligence, selfishness, and benevolence. These evaluations are used to create and publicize a ranking of each person’s moral worth within their community.

Creed is a technology that can reliably evaluate individuals’ underlying character traits, including honesty, empathy, cruelty, courage, malice, intelligence, selfishness, and benevolence. These evaluations are used to create and publicize a ranking of each person’s moral worth within their community.

Creed is a technology that can reliably evaluate individuals’ underlying character traits, including honesty, empathy, cruelty, courage, malice, intelligence, selfishness, and benevolence. These evaluations are used to create and publicize a ranking of each person’s moral worth within their community.

For the purposes of this debate, human-AI relationships refers to the development of close personal and emotional connections with artificial intelligence-based systems. Examples of this include roleplaying with custom personas using Replika and Character.ai, the use of AI-based physical companionship robots such as ElliQ by the elderly, discussions of issues of deep personal significance with ChatGPT, etc.

Capital gains tax is a tax imposed by the government on the profit realized from the sale of an asset.