How can I look at my children and not already be mourning their death from day 1?
Suppose you lived in the dark times, where children have a <50% of living to adulthood. Wouldn’t you still have kids? Even if probabilistically smallpox was likely to take them?
If AI kills us all, will my children suffer? Will it be my fault for having brought them into the world while knowing this would happen?
Even if they don’t live to adulthood, I’d still view their childhoods as valuable. Arguably higher average utility than adulthood.
Even if my children’s short lives are happy, wouldn’t their happiness be fundamentally false and devoid of meaning?
Our lifetimes are currently bounded, are they false and devoid of all meaning?
The negentropy in the universe is also bounded, is the universe false and devoid of all meaning?
Suppose you lived in the dark times, where children have a <50% of living to adulthood. Wouldn’t you still have kids? Even if probabilistically smallpox was likely to take them?
Just wanna add that each of you children individually having a 50% chance of survival due to smallpox is different from all of your children together having 50% chance of survival due to AI (i.e. uncorrelated vs correlated), so some people might decide differently in these 2 cases.
Suppose you lived in the dark times, where children have a <50% of living to adulthood. Wouldn’t you still have kids? Even if probabilistically smallpox was likely to take them?
Even if they don’t live to adulthood, I’d still view their childhoods as valuable. Arguably higher average utility than adulthood.
Our lifetimes are currently bounded, are they false and devoid of all meaning?
The negentropy in the universe is also bounded, is the universe false and devoid of all meaning?
Just wanna add that each of you children individually having a 50% chance of survival due to smallpox is different from all of your children together having 50% chance of survival due to AI (i.e. uncorrelated vs correlated), so some people might decide differently in these 2 cases.