Don’t assume that everyone else will stay uncaring, once they have the capacity to care. We would save you, along with everyone else.
Downvotes for being unreasonably dramatic.
Rather than downvoting, how about trying to explain why “caring” is a universal value to someone who’s never experienced “caring”? How about trying to explain why, in all the design-space of posthuman optimization processes, I should bet that the one that gets picked is the one where “caring” applies to my sorry ass?
We have enough resources to feed and shelter the world right now, and we don’t. So saying that “once we have the resources to care, we will” seems like the sort of BS that our esteemed host warns us about—the assumption that just because something is all-powerful and all-wise, it will be all-good.
I grew up worshipping a Calvinist dick of a deity, so pull the other one.
And another thing:
people are intrinsically valuable
It’s all well and good for YOU to claim that people are intrinsically valuable, you probably have enough resources to avoid getting spit on and lectured about “bootstraps” when you say it. Some of us aren’t so lucky.
If whatever it is that gets to do the deciding is evaluating people based on their use as raw materials, things have gone horribly wrong. In fact, that’s basically the exact definition of “horribly wrong” that seems to be in common use around here. As a corollary, there’s a lot that’s wrong with the current state of affairs.
Rather than downvoting, how about trying to explain why “caring” is a universal value to someone who’s never experienced “caring”? How about trying to explain why, in all the design-space of posthuman optimization processes, I should bet that the one that gets picked is the one where “caring” applies to my sorry ass?
We have enough resources to feed and shelter the world right now, and we don’t. So saying that “once we have the resources to care, we will” seems like the sort of BS that our esteemed host warns us about—the assumption that just because something is all-powerful and all-wise, it will be all-good.
I grew up worshipping a Calvinist dick of a deity, so pull the other one.
And another thing:
It’s all well and good for YOU to claim that people are intrinsically valuable, you probably have enough resources to avoid getting spit on and lectured about “bootstraps” when you say it. Some of us aren’t so lucky.
If whatever it is that gets to do the deciding is evaluating people based on their use as raw materials, things have gone horribly wrong. In fact, that’s basically the exact definition of “horribly wrong” that seems to be in common use around here. As a corollary, there’s a lot that’s wrong with the current state of affairs.