“At its worst, there might be pressure to carve out the parts of ourselves that make us human, like Hanson discusses in Age of Em.”
To be clear, while some people do claim that such such things might happen in an Age of Em, I’m not one of them. Of course I can’t exclude such things in the long run; few things can be excluded in the long run. But that doesn’t seem at all likely to me in the short run.
“At its worst, there might be pressure to carve out the parts of ourselves that make us human, like Hanson discusses in Age of Em.”
To be clear, while some people do claim that such such things might happen in an Age of Em, I’m not one of them. Of course I can’t exclude such things in the long run; few things can be excluded in the long run. But that doesn’t seem at all likely to me in the short run.
Apologies for the mischaracterisation. I’ve changed this to refer to Scott Alexander’s post which predicts this pressure.