Yes, that’s correct. I’m transhuman-chauvinist. I want our present and future to belong as much as possible to humans and our enhanced descendants, not to alien minds who may not share my values. There absolutely are non-human minds I’d like to create and experience living with and share the future in an equitable way with, but it is a highly restricted set based on compatibility with my own values. For instance, uplifted mammals or digital humans. Many people might not describe either of those groups as ‘human’, but I’d still consider them within group human-ish. Of course, the human-ish group isn’t a team, it’s a category. Within that there are opposed factions actively killing each other. I’d prefer if that wasn’t the case. I don’t have a plan for aligning human-ish creatures to each other sufficiently to achieve a peaceful society, but I do suspect that this would be easier than aligning a group of actors including both human-ish actors and very alien actors. Until we have such a plan, probably we shouldn’t hand much power over to potentially non-peaceful alien actors.
Yes, that’s correct. I’m transhuman-chauvinist. I want our present and future to belong as much as possible to humans and our enhanced descendants, not to alien minds who may not share my values. There absolutely are non-human minds I’d like to create and experience living with and share the future in an equitable way with, but it is a highly restricted set based on compatibility with my own values. For instance, uplifted mammals or digital humans. Many people might not describe either of those groups as ‘human’, but I’d still consider them within group human-ish. Of course, the human-ish group isn’t a team, it’s a category. Within that there are opposed factions actively killing each other. I’d prefer if that wasn’t the case. I don’t have a plan for aligning human-ish creatures to each other sufficiently to achieve a peaceful society, but I do suspect that this would be easier than aligning a group of actors including both human-ish actors and very alien actors. Until we have such a plan, probably we shouldn’t hand much power over to potentially non-peaceful alien actors.