Re: Some questions on the Extropy Institute philosophy...

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 11:03:44 MST


T0Morrow@aol.com wrote:
>
> The error arises, I suppose, because transhumanists at least do not blame
> humankind for harboring inherent evil. The converse does not hold, however.
> Rather, transhumanists go after the "inherent" part of that description,
> rather than the "evil" part.

Huh? Of course humans are inherently evil. And inherently good. And
inherently acclimating to the environment. And inherently general
intelligent. And inherently constructors, communicators, and arguers of
moral philosophies. I don't see why transhumanism would need to assume
anything in particular in this area.

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



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