how we act in our lifetimes is going to affect what sort of minds there will or won’t be in the far future
Sure, but so what? Your power to deliberately and purposefully affect these things is limited by your ability to understand and model the development of the world sufficiently well to know which levers to pull. I would like to suggest that for “far future” that power is indistinguishable from zero.
Sure, but so what? Your power to deliberately and purposefully affect these things is limited by your ability to understand and model the development of the world sufficiently well to know which levers to pull. I would like to suggest that for “far future” that power is indistinguishable from zero.