Yeah. It’s quite retarded in the context as well. Bostrom’s basically going on and on of how it is crunch time for the philosophy to solve eternal questions of ethics and such, and how this specific philosophy is so much more important.
Let’s say someone actually solved those eternal questions.
To be specific, let’s say we understood suffering. We can look at a description of a physical system, and then tell how much suffering that system is experiencing.
What does he think such answer would even look like? Picture a piece of paper, it has the answer on it, what do you think it looks like?
(Same as every other hard answer ever encountered by mankind, which wasn’t bullshit: Mathematical formulas, with derivations and proofs, in all likelihood involving objects and algebras we didn’t even come up with yet. Answer that is literally unthinkable today)
edit: I think it’d be fair to say that answering a difficult question before there’s even a language in which an answer could be expressed is probably one of the most counter productive efforts known to mankind.
Yeah. It’s quite retarded in the context as well. Bostrom’s basically going on and on of how it is crunch time for the philosophy to solve eternal questions of ethics and such, and how this specific philosophy is so much more important.
Let’s say someone actually solved those eternal questions.
To be specific, let’s say we understood suffering. We can look at a description of a physical system, and then tell how much suffering that system is experiencing.
What does he think such answer would even look like? Picture a piece of paper, it has the answer on it, what do you think it looks like?
(Same as every other hard answer ever encountered by mankind, which wasn’t bullshit: Mathematical formulas, with derivations and proofs, in all likelihood involving objects and algebras we didn’t even come up with yet. Answer that is literally unthinkable today)
edit: I think it’d be fair to say that answering a difficult question before there’s even a language in which an answer could be expressed is probably one of the most counter productive efforts known to mankind.