To be honest the entire concept of Kaj’s paper reads like a strawman. Only in the sense that the entire concept is so ridiculous that it feels inexcusably contemptuous to attribute that belief to anyone. This is why it is a good thing Kaj is writing such papers and not me. My abstract of “WTF? Just.… no.” wouldn’t go down too well.
The “they will need us” arguments are just one brief subsection within the paper. There are many other proposals as well, many of which aren’t as implausible-seeming as the TWNU arguments. So I wouldn’t call it a strawman paper.
To be honest the entire concept of Kaj’s paper reads like a strawman. Only in the sense that the entire concept is so ridiculous that it feels inexcusably contemptuous to attribute that belief to anyone. This is why it is a good thing Kaj is writing such papers and not me. My abstract of “WTF? Just.… no.” wouldn’t go down too well.
The “they will need us” arguments are just one brief subsection within the paper. There are many other proposals as well, many of which aren’t as implausible-seeming as the TWNU arguments. So I wouldn’t call it a strawman paper.