Thank you for highlighting philosophical position!
I take it that Tolkien [early on] thought human thinking is often malign to their desires and corrupts the latter when given enough power; and power without cognition improvement often comes with machines and other tools for doing something new; so people should be truer to their desires and prefer to use things without much relying on them.
This position is clearly in contrast with uplifting, which suggests giving everyone more power to lead fulfilling lives—as much power as possible—and backing the supply with full force of humanity. I would actually try uplifting, however little the stable solution zone would be, because I feel that to be cool!
Thank you for highlighting philosophical position!
I take it that Tolkien [early on] thought human thinking is often malign to their desires and corrupts the latter when given enough power; and power without cognition improvement often comes with machines and other tools for doing something new; so people should be truer to their desires and prefer to use things without much relying on them.
This position is clearly in contrast with uplifting, which suggests giving everyone more power to lead fulfilling lives—as much power as possible—and backing the supply with full force of humanity. I would actually try uplifting, however little the stable solution zone would be, because I feel that to be cool!