Firstly, your comparison of Ayn Rand, a deceased novelist, to multi-decade tyrannical dynasties, is more than a little unhinged.
Secondly, the way that people act is strongly influenced by their surroundings, institutions, and social context. To think otherwise is the Fundamental Attribution Error. Castro and Kim don’t have some special quality that would make them totalitarian dictators in the future; it’s the nature of Cuban and Korean social institutions that have put them where they are. In a not-so-very-different world, Bashar Al-Assad would be an ophthalmologist in Acton. If future institutions are sufficiently inadequate, there will be plenty of would-be tyrants without worrying about a few cryopreserved relics being some sort of tipping point.
Thirdly, I suppose it depends on your view of mankind. There is no realistic way you can control whether people who are cryopreserved (or born) will be “good” or “bad” on net. So will, on average, more people lead to better outcomes? Or are human beings some kind of virus?
Firstly, your comparison of Ayn Rand, a deceased novelist, to multi-decade tyrannical dynasties, is more than a little unhinged.
Secondly, the way that people act is strongly influenced by their surroundings, institutions, and social context. To think otherwise is the Fundamental Attribution Error. Castro and Kim don’t have some special quality that would make them totalitarian dictators in the future;
Maybe the core difference is that Ayn Rand was under a lot less enviromental pressure to did what she did than those other people.
Firstly, your comparison of Ayn Rand, a deceased novelist, to multi-decade tyrannical dynasties, is more than a little unhinged.
Secondly, the way that people act is strongly influenced by their surroundings, institutions, and social context. To think otherwise is the Fundamental Attribution Error. Castro and Kim don’t have some special quality that would make them totalitarian dictators in the future; it’s the nature of Cuban and Korean social institutions that have put them where they are. In a not-so-very-different world, Bashar Al-Assad would be an ophthalmologist in Acton. If future institutions are sufficiently inadequate, there will be plenty of would-be tyrants without worrying about a few cryopreserved relics being some sort of tipping point.
Thirdly, I suppose it depends on your view of mankind. There is no realistic way you can control whether people who are cryopreserved (or born) will be “good” or “bad” on net. So will, on average, more people lead to better outcomes? Or are human beings some kind of virus?
Maybe the core difference is that Ayn Rand was under a lot less enviromental pressure to did what she did than those other people.