Things are pretty much the same in Malaysia where I live. The city centre is completely urban. But in the suburbs, the houses and the jungle face each other, constantly trying to intrude upon each other. I've come across a baby python in my garden and I've seen monkeys, snakes and eagles while walking my dogs.
What is this article actually saying about the AI bubble?
Is the AI bubble actually about to pop and what will it's popping mean for AI development?
Any parents here using alternative education systems for their kids?
I'm defining an alternative education system as one that exists outside the traditional, drop your kids at a building where they sit at desks for seven hours.
How did you start? What made you start? What challenges or successes have you seen?
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I would say that you laid out a pretty compelling argument, maybe status does actually make people look more attractive than they'd otherwise be seen as.
I suppose you're right. I really have just written Pascal's wager all over again.
Fair enough, it would be impossible to know for certain that the angelic cohort and white clad man really were from heaven. I suppose they could simply show everyone what heaven and hell were like?
But then how would you know that footage was real?
I disagree. Perhaps I'm biased because I'm an Antinatalist, but I don't personally think it's ethical to create a thinking, feeling life that you know will end in less time than average.
Yes, it is true that people do die young. You can't guarantee that your child won't die of cancer at 10 or in a car crash at 20. But the difference is that no one sets out to create a child that they Know will die of cancer at 10, no matter how badly they want a child.
Imagine being that child and being told that your parent did not expect you to have some of the same age-based experiences as them ( learning to drive, first kiss, trying alcohol). I'm very sure you would feel like a cruel joke had been played on you.
There's a cut of Blade runner where Rutger Hauer's character tells his creator
" I want more life, Father"
Yes, people have had kids in the past where the life expectancy was lower. But it's important to note that they were under the impression that it was impossible to live much longer than they had seen people live. As far as they were concerned when you turned 70 you were as good as dead.
But they did not expect their children's lives to be cut short. Certainly, an illness or accident could take them ( not to mention infant mortality), but the assumption was that their children would eventually have children of their own. For most of human history we have lived in "normal conditions" where the above assumption would be correct in the vast majority of cases.
We of the 21st century do not live in normal conditions. In short, I believe creating any human life is unethical, but creating one you fully expect to end quickly is even more unethical.