Post by The Lost One on Nov 11, 2017 17:14:38 GMT
Nov 11, 2017 13:20:17 GMT @graham said:
Racism is bad because history demonstrates that it leads to broken, dysfunctional human societies. Destroying human society in favour of a non-human society is bad because of the same thing.I don't think that's why racism is bad. If it were, then a hypothetical functional but racist society would be good. I don't believe that. I think racism is wrong because it treats the welfare and wants of those outside a group we're in as less important than that of those within the group despite those both in and out of the group feeling them just as keenly.
You're saying, if I understand you correctly, that I should want amazing things to be achieved - and therefore, if some non-human intelligence can achieve even more amazing things than humans can, then I should be happy to see the non-human intelligence supplant and even destroy humanity.
Well not happy, just not see it as all that big a deal. The welfare of future humans won't benefit you or your loved ones anymore than the welfare of AIs or aliens or whatever. So why care about it particularly? And if you do care about it in the sense that you'd rather people in the future be happy, why say human happiness is more important than AI happiness?
That you just do care more about humans because you are human seems weak to me. Like if I hoped Irish people become the top dogs of the world in 100 years because I'm Irish.