He predicts that it will be possible to do things like engineer away sadness.
He doesn’t devote much attention to convincing skeptics that such engineering will be possible.
He seems more interested in questions of whether we should classify the results as utopian.
Thanks! I’m also uninterested in the question of whether it’s possible. Obviously it is. The question is how we’ll decide to use it. I think that answer is critical to whether we’d consider the results utopian. So, does he consider how we should or will use that ability?
He predicts that it will be possible to do things like engineer away sadness. He doesn’t devote much attention to convincing skeptics that such engineering will be possible. He seems more interested in questions of whether we should classify the results as utopian.
Thanks! I’m also uninterested in the question of whether it’s possible. Obviously it is. The question is how we’ll decide to use it. I think that answer is critical to whether we’d consider the results utopian. So, does he consider how we should or will use that ability?
I can’t recall any clear predictions or advice, just a general presumption that it will be used wisely.