What if keeping humanity alive and flourishing actually risks spreading suffering further and faster—through advanced technologies, colonization of space, or systems we can’t yet foresee? And what if our very efforts to safeguard the future have unintended consequences that exacerbate suffering in ways we can’t predict?
It’s up to those future people to solve their own problems. It is enough that we make a future for them to use as they please. Parents must let their children go, or what was the point of creating them?
It’s up to those future people to solve their own problems. It is enough that we make a future for them to use as they please. Parents must let their children go, or what was the point of creating them?