If you wonder why this is downvoted despite it being on-tipic: It hasn’t enough flesh for a topic that isn’t discussed the first time. You could add [link] to your post and add at least a few refs to existing discussions. Or just post this in the media thread.
I wasn’t that concerned about it but I honestly didn’t want to burden the topic down with tedious commentary and links to other relevant discussion. It was meant to be a short lived discussion on an independent topic. If I had wanted to do all that I would have written an essay on the subject.
You might also get a more positive response to narrowly focused subjects within this fairly large philosophical question. Your post is a bit ‘transhumanism 101’, and most LW posters have long since started wrangling with these ethics on a deeper level.
As a random example: Since uploaded minds can replicate themselves easily, is there a role for representative democracies in a world where this technology is available?
If you wonder why this is downvoted despite it being on-tipic: It hasn’t enough flesh for a topic that isn’t discussed the first time. You could add [link] to your post and add at least a few refs to existing discussions. Or just post this in the media thread.
I wasn’t that concerned about it but I honestly didn’t want to burden the topic down with tedious commentary and links to other relevant discussion. It was meant to be a short lived discussion on an independent topic. If I had wanted to do all that I would have written an essay on the subject.
You might also get a more positive response to narrowly focused subjects within this fairly large philosophical question. Your post is a bit ‘transhumanism 101’, and most LW posters have long since started wrangling with these ethics on a deeper level.
As a random example: Since uploaded minds can replicate themselves easily, is there a role for representative democracies in a world where this technology is available?
That’s ok, I won’t be posting further.