Re: Godhood vs Children

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 02:25:17 MDT


Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Well, ask ANYONE if they're happy that they were brought
> into this pre-Singularity world! Of course they are!
> Leave us not make too many decisions for people that
> would be counter to their own feelings and conclusions.

The question is not "Would you rather have never been born?" but "Would
you rather have been born into a post-Singularity world instead?"

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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