(Response to both AppliedDivinityStudies and branperr)
My aim was to argue that a particular extreme sort of duplication technology would have extreme consequences, which is important because I think technologies that are “extreme” in the relevant way could be developed this century. I don’t think the arguments in this piece point to any particular conclusions about biological cloning (which is not “instant”), natalism, etc., which have less extreme consequences.
This is a very good longtermist piece. Is the short-termist interpretation that we should try very hard to clone John von Neumann?
(Response to both AppliedDivinityStudies and branperr)
My aim was to argue that a particular extreme sort of duplication technology would have extreme consequences, which is important because I think technologies that are “extreme” in the relevant way could be developed this century. I don’t think the arguments in this piece point to any particular conclusions about biological cloning (which is not “instant”), natalism, etc., which have less extreme consequences.