I was very put off by this piece—even though Jobs clearly had a pro-death stance, using his death as an opportunity to score points against transhumanists isn’t particularly nice. (And I wonder how much of this article Jobs would have actually agreed with.)
I found this part of the article especially disturbing:
Indeed, [Jobs] might conclude that the whole flaw in the Kurzweil vision is that anybody anywhere would have any lasting use for us, that our sticking around in digital form would be welcome or valuable in any way.
Apparently the author thinks that human lives don’t have any kind of moral value, or the ability to work after being uploaded.
I was very put off by this piece—even though Jobs clearly had a pro-death stance, using his death as an opportunity to score points against transhumanists isn’t particularly nice. (And I wonder how much of this article Jobs would have actually agreed with.)
I found this part of the article especially disturbing:
Apparently the author thinks that human lives don’t have any kind of moral value, or the ability to work after being uploaded.
FAR FAR FAR—the whole thing. Offer the authors a reduction of their life time and they might act differently.
Moral values do not pay the bills.