Approving of something in principle doesn’t necessarily translate into believing it should be mandatory regardless of the subject’s feelings on the matter, or even into advocating it in any particular case. I’d be surprised if EY in particular ever made such an argument, given the attitude toward self-determination expressed in his Metaethics and Fun Theory sequences; I am admittedly extrapolating from only tangentially related data, though. Not sure I’ve ever read anything of his dealing with the ethics of brain simulation, aside from the specific and rather unusual case given in Nonperson Predicates and related articles.
Robin Hanson’s stance is a little different; his emverse is well-known, but as best I can tell he’s founding it on grounds of economic determinism rather than ethics. I’m hardly an expert on the subject, nor an unbiased observer (from what I’ve read I think he’s privileging the hypothesis, among other things), but everything of his that I’ve read on the subject parses much better as a Cold Equations sort of deal than as an ethical imperative.
Approving of something in principle doesn’t necessarily translate into believing it should be mandatory regardless of the subject’s feelings on the matter, or even into advocating it in any particular case. I’d be surprised if EY in particular ever made such an argument, given the attitude toward self-determination expressed in his Metaethics and Fun Theory sequences; I am admittedly extrapolating from only tangentially related data, though. Not sure I’ve ever read anything of his dealing with the ethics of brain simulation, aside from the specific and rather unusual case given in Nonperson Predicates and related articles.
Robin Hanson’s stance is a little different; his emverse is well-known, but as best I can tell he’s founding it on grounds of economic determinism rather than ethics. I’m hardly an expert on the subject, nor an unbiased observer (from what I’ve read I think he’s privileging the hypothesis, among other things), but everything of his that I’ve read on the subject parses much better as a Cold Equations sort of deal than as an ethical imperative.