So, does this mean that you have descended past “We need to eliminate the suffering of fruit flies” and gone straight for “We need to eliminate the suffering of atomic nuclei that are forced to fuse together?” This seems like a pretty wildly wrong view, and not because rectifying the problem is beyond our technological abilities. It seems like there is plenty of human suffering to attend to without having to invent new kinds of suffering based on atoms in the sun.
it does not. human suffering is the priority because they contain the selfhoods we’d want to imbue descendants of onto the sun’s negentropy. earth is rapidly losing the information-theoretic selves of beings and this is a catastrophe. My moral system adds up to being pretty normal in familiar circumstances, the main way I disagree with mainstream is that I want to end farmed animal suffering asap too. But my main priority in the near term is preserving human life and actualization; my concern that the sun is pure suffering is relative to the beings who are themselves dying. The underlying principle here is measuring what could have been in terms of complex beings actualizing themselves with that negentropy, and in order for that could-have-been to occur we need to end the great many sources of death, disease, and suffering that mean those people won’t be with us when we can achieve starlifting.
So, does this mean that you have descended past “We need to eliminate the suffering of fruit flies” and gone straight for “We need to eliminate the suffering of atomic nuclei that are forced to fuse together?” This seems like a pretty wildly wrong view, and not because rectifying the problem is beyond our technological abilities. It seems like there is plenty of human suffering to attend to without having to invent new kinds of suffering based on atoms in the sun.
it does not. human suffering is the priority because they contain the selfhoods we’d want to imbue descendants of onto the sun’s negentropy. earth is rapidly losing the information-theoretic selves of beings and this is a catastrophe. My moral system adds up to being pretty normal in familiar circumstances, the main way I disagree with mainstream is that I want to end farmed animal suffering asap too. But my main priority in the near term is preserving human life and actualization; my concern that the sun is pure suffering is relative to the beings who are themselves dying. The underlying principle here is measuring what could have been in terms of complex beings actualizing themselves with that negentropy, and in order for that could-have-been to occur we need to end the great many sources of death, disease, and suffering that mean those people won’t be with us when we can achieve starlifting.