Developing higher intelligence is not unethical or immoral. I am very surprised to hear you say otherwise. I think that in a lot of these discussions people seem to go into them with some sort of base assumption that everything is going to be abhorrent and awful and terrible. I have given you no indication of that. I think it’s an uncharitable assumption to assume that developing higher intelligence through these methods is inherently unethical or immoral. Intelligence is extremely beneficial and extremely moral to develop. Also on the detail level I don’t actually believe that you would need to breed an animal population to human-level intelligence to benefit from this sort of project. I think that you would be able to learn many things that could be applied to humans even if the animal population is developed to a level that is below human intelligence.
Developing higher intelligence is not unethical or immoral. I am very surprised to hear you say otherwise. I think that in a lot of these discussions people seem to go into them with some sort of base assumption that everything is going to be abhorrent and awful and terrible. I have given you no indication of that. I think it’s an uncharitable assumption to assume that developing higher intelligence through these methods is inherently unethical or immoral. Intelligence is extremely beneficial and extremely moral to develop. Also on the detail level I don’t actually believe that you would need to breed an animal population to human-level intelligence to benefit from this sort of project. I think that you would be able to learn many things that could be applied to humans even if the animal population is developed to a level that is below human intelligence.
It’s not the higher intelligence that’s bad, it’s the forced breeding or other dangerous experiments on much smarter animals.
Like what?