Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116136370851019617

Here is a very disturbing article on #longtermism. It made me realize my main problem with the argument - adding to the monstrosity of the idea itself.

„Longtermism is […], which asserts that there could be so many digital people living in vast computer simulations millions or billions of years in the future that one of our most important moral obligations today is to take actions that ensure as many of these digital people come into existence as possible.“

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#TESCREAL

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Arnd Layer Feb 26

The #nonSequitur is that they implicitly assume that you can assign a value to a not yet existing ‚digital person‘.
That is where they lost me. It’s goes so much further than the nonsense that anti-#birthContol zealots produce.

And there is so much more #bullshit behind that leap of faith.

So now I’m more convinced than ever that the billionaires promoting this just use it as a cheap moral sounding excuse not to respect actually living people.

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Deb Nam-Krane

@iamlayer8 There are some who do believe this is even possible and thus that longtermism or whatever is the correct outlook. They're delusional.