I know you have the exact opposite position on this as me but It would be nice If you could try to do justice to the Negative Utilitarian Idea that terraforming far off celestial bodies and creating more bisopheres is actually the worst thing humanity could ever do.
Require people building biospheres to stick nanotech in the brains of anything that can feel pain to make sure it doesn’t get bad enough to stop being fun?
I don’t think this is the place that a soft negative utilitarian actually breaks with a soft total utilitarian transhumanist.
Interesting! One idea they could expand on is that spreading to other stars would mean that the probe we send could later come back to kill us all. Basically, “humans” or probes on other stars would evolve differently from us, and it would take crazy long periods of time to communicate with them. It would be near impossible to coordinate an interstellar civilization, even with light-speed travel.
I know you have the exact opposite position on this as me but It would be nice If you could try to do justice to the Negative Utilitarian Idea that terraforming far off celestial bodies and creating more bisopheres is actually the worst thing humanity could ever do.
Require people building biospheres to stick nanotech in the brains of anything that can feel pain to make sure it doesn’t get bad enough to stop being fun?
I don’t think this is the place that a soft negative utilitarian actually breaks with a soft total utilitarian transhumanist.
Interesting! One idea they could expand on is that spreading to other stars would mean that the probe we send could later come back to kill us all. Basically, “humans” or probes on other stars would evolve differently from us, and it would take crazy long periods of time to communicate with them. It would be near impossible to coordinate an interstellar civilization, even with light-speed travel.