From: Felix Ungman (felix@hu.se)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 06:41:20 MDT
On tisdag 12 juni 2001 10.25, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>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?"
Given that we're still pre-Singular, the two questions are completely equivalent.
The original question was:
> And the remaining moral question is: Do you really
> want to bring a child into a pre-Singularity world?
It was good enough for my father, it has been good enough for me... :-) Seriously, if you set your standards so high that nothing but an utopia is good enough for your child, you'll never have any.
/felix
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