I think we’re ultimately going to have to give humans a moral privilege for unprincipled reasons. Just “humans get to survive because we said so and we don’t need a justification to live.” If we don’t, principled moral systems backed by superintelligences are going to spin arguments that eventually lead to our extinction.
I can’t think of a way to do this that doesn’t also get really obsessive about protecting fruit trees, but that doesn’t seem like a huge drawback to me. I think it’s really hard to uniquely identify humans out of the deprecated natural world, but it shouldn’t be toooo bad to specify <historical bio life>. I’d like to live in a museum run by AI, please,
I think we’re ultimately going to have to give humans a moral privilege for unprincipled reasons. Just “humans get to survive because we said so and we don’t need a justification to live.” If we don’t, principled moral systems backed by superintelligences are going to spin arguments that eventually lead to our extinction.
I think that unprincipled stand is a fine principle.
I can’t think of a way to do this that doesn’t also get really obsessive about protecting fruit trees, but that doesn’t seem like a huge drawback to me. I think it’s really hard to uniquely identify humans out of the deprecated natural world, but it shouldn’t be toooo bad to specify <historical bio life>. I’d like to live in a museum run by AI, please,