I don’t have the same dismissal of everyone after my death-boundary. (Also, I’m a theist, so it ain’t the same degree of “boundary” for me.)
But! I do strongly feel, when discussing nonconsensual AI succession of humans, a prerational, vigorous hatred and dismissal for whatever beings succeed is. Do they have profound interiority as worthy moral patients? Are they having fun and loving each other? Don’t care! “Fuck ‘em!” is the phrase that comes to mind. “They killed me and everyone I love—fuck ‘em!” This doesn’t accord with my frontal-cortex moral philosophy, but I have a collection of beliefs that I’ve realized precede any thinking and won’t be altered. Among them: “Art has intrinsic value apart from the experiences it induces in beings’ minds,” “Academic dishonesty is a serious sin and ought to be a high cultural taboo,” and—of anyone who has deeply wronged those I love—for instance, someone who has raped my friend, or an entity, no matter how worthy, that has destroyed someone I love—although I try to cultivate forgiveness in even the most extreme of scenarios—”Fuck ’em!!” This animus extends to would-be handmaidens of the successor.
I don’t expect to integrate any of these instincts.
And as for consensual AI succession of humans—I feel a similarly strong prerational revulsion.
I don’t have the same dismissal of everyone after my death-boundary. (Also, I’m a theist, so it ain’t the same degree of “boundary” for me.)
But! I do strongly feel, when discussing nonconsensual AI succession of humans, a prerational, vigorous hatred and dismissal for whatever beings succeed is. Do they have profound interiority as worthy moral patients? Are they having fun and loving each other? Don’t care! “Fuck ‘em!” is the phrase that comes to mind. “They killed me and everyone I love—fuck ‘em!” This doesn’t accord with my frontal-cortex moral philosophy, but I have a collection of beliefs that I’ve realized precede any thinking and won’t be altered. Among them: “Art has intrinsic value apart from the experiences it induces in beings’ minds,” “Academic dishonesty is a serious sin and ought to be a high cultural taboo,” and—of anyone who has deeply wronged those I love—for instance, someone who has raped my friend, or an entity, no matter how worthy, that has destroyed someone I love—although I try to cultivate forgiveness in even the most extreme of scenarios—”Fuck ’em!!” This animus extends to would-be handmaidens of the successor.
I don’t expect to integrate any of these instincts.
And as for consensual AI succession of humans—I feel a similarly strong prerational revulsion.