A super-beneficiary (non-pejorative synonym of utility monster[1]) is "a being that is superhumanly efficient at deriving well-being from resources".[2]

It is hypothesized that digital minds could in theory be super-beneficiaries. This could happen because digital hardware runs millions of times faster than biological neurons, along with several other optimizations.[2]

Super-beneficiaries pose many ethical challenges :...

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