Does Bostrom address human modification/amplification? I’d think he would, but I’m not sure he actually did, at least not in any depth.
A world in which we all get sad because we can’t make new philosophy breakthroughs and don’t bother to engineer out that sadness seems quite implausible. Yet I didn’t hear this addressed in his interview with Liv Boeree.
And I’m not going to buy and read it just to find out.
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?
Does Bostrom address human modification/amplification? I’d think he would, but I’m not sure he actually did, at least not in any depth.
A world in which we all get sad because we can’t make new philosophy breakthroughs and don’t bother to engineer out that sadness seems quite implausible. Yet I didn’t hear this addressed in his interview with Liv Boeree.
And I’m not going to buy and read it just to find out.
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.