this is a specific focus for what part of utopia i’d like to live in, and i don’t really have an interest in creating descendants at the moment. i’ve written more about rules for creating new persons in ∀V, but the short version is “no kids allowed (they’re too hard for me to figure out), only copies of people”. though in a setting where aligned Elua has more agency, maybe it could figure out to make kids viable.
Nice that you’ve thought about it and made a decision. So just to check that I understand correctly, your proposed utopia probably contains a a whole bunch of people who really want to start families but are forced not to by Elua?
who really want to start a family in a way that can’t be satisfied by an alternative, yes. such as: creating a merged version of their minds and have it emit preferences in advance and then consentingly modify itself until it’s reasonably childlike, have a non-moral-patient fake mind be in the body until a certain age before being replaced with that merged mind, or any other kind of weird scheme i haven’t thought about. there are many possibilities, in virtualia and with Elua to help.
this is a specific focus for what part of utopia i’d like to live in, and i don’t really have an interest in creating descendants at the moment. i’ve written more about rules for creating new persons in ∀V, but the short version is “no kids allowed (they’re too hard for me to figure out), only copies of people”. though in a setting where aligned Elua has more agency, maybe it could figure out to make kids viable.
Nice that you’ve thought about it and made a decision. So just to check that I understand correctly, your proposed utopia probably contains a a whole bunch of people who really want to start families but are forced not to by Elua?
who really want to start a family in a way that can’t be satisfied by an alternative, yes. such as: creating a merged version of their minds and have it emit preferences in advance and then consentingly modify itself until it’s reasonably childlike, have a non-moral-patient fake mind be in the body until a certain age before being replaced with that merged mind, or any other kind of weird scheme i haven’t thought about. there are many possibilities, in virtualia and with Elua to help.