It would be strange to discover that aliens have the same ideas about morality as a certain small, highly educated part of Earth’s population.
I’ll add something. Our world wasn’t created by a moral entity to be morally right. We could be in a world where we die every day while we sleep, and that would be terrible. The fact that it would be terrible isn’t an argument. There’s a lot of terrible stuff in the world. And the assumption that since it would be natural, it therefore wouldn’t be terrible, isn’t an argument either. Ordinary death is natural too.
Of course, I’m writing this very belatedly, but I’d still like to express it.
If we give preference to options such as copying and destructive loading, then, if this turns out to be a mistake, we lose everything. Our understanding is far from complete.
That’s why I believe that giving preference (where possible) to options that preserve the continuity of consciousness is a rational approach, even if we are 99 % sure that continuity isn’t important. Because if it is important after all, then we lose everything.
This means that when comparing approaches to achi... (read more)
About the magical chromosome. I once wrote a critical note about this on the Russian analogue of TVtropes (paragraphs one and three, marked 1, remark 2 from another person). I still don't understand how the appearance of wizards from the connection of a wizard and an unambiguous Muggle should work.
"1 And again, genetics. In fact, the author's error in the genetic part is much more critical: it follows directly from the text that a wizard is only a person who has inherited the "magic gene" from both his father and mother. That is, a wizard can only be... (read more)
"But by the end of the story the mysterious old wizard mask has moved from Dumbledore to Harry, and Harry's brash young hero mask has moved to Hermione. (Hermione's mask does not, so far as I noticed, move to Dumbledore.)"
Just imagine: thousands of years later, Dumbledore is pulled out of the mirror and finds himself in a completely alien transhumanist future built by Harry. Young (only a hundred years old!), inexperienced, armed with principles and ideas about reality that are completely inappropriate for this world and society... Just like Hermione at the beginning of the story, isn't it?
The way you describe the consequences of the invention of the Duplicator completely ignores ordinary human qualities. First of all, human ambitions. If you copy a brilliant CEO to replace all middle managers with him, then none of these copies will want to be a middle manager. Or you will have to change their brains so that they are happy with their subordinate position (which is doubtful from the moral side... like this idea in general). If you copy the brilliant president who ruled the country, then the copy discovers that her personal ambitions are not satisfied - he is no longer ruling the country. Similarly with all other options.
Written with the help of an online translator, there may be errors.
I was talking about the war in Cyprus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
As far as I remember, Turkey and Greece, NATO members, were at war with each other.
After studying the situation of Ukraine's economy after 1991 in recent days, I am not surprised by those who think so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine
Yes, a nuclear war would not destroy humanity completely. This is not relevant to this issue. From the fact that there was no nuclear war, we cannot deduce in any way what its probability was. The probability can be deduced only from a thorough assessment of the incidents themselves (the Caribbean crisis and 1983 and other examples) and the possibilities of other incidents.
I hope the translator translated it correctly...
I will add that we do not know what the probability of nuclear escalation was during the Cold War. Perhaps there was a 50 or 90 percent risk of war. Survivorship bias.
Crimea was also an autonomy, but its independence and the referendum on joining the Russian Federation was not recognized in the world.
Today's news.
Turkey abstained from voting on the suspension of Russia's rights in the Council of Europe.
The US is critically dependent on the production of microchips in Taiwan, there are only economic reasons. The United States has no economic interests in Ukraine.
I add that the precedent for Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine and Crimea was called the independence and international recognition of Kosovo.
Kind of. "Why can they, but we can't?"
Hello there! Will you translate something else?
And yes, even commentators with a different point of view in Runet are called paid.
It sounds realistic.
In Ukraine, the majority will not vote for joining Russia. It is impossible to preserve even the visible legitimacy of such an annexation. When Crimea was annexed, the majority voted for joining Russia. In Luhansk and Donetsk (two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine), the majority voted for independence from Ukraine. These referendums are not recognized by most countries, but there is no doubt about the reality of such sentiments of the local population. It won't work that way with the rest of Ukraine.
The morality of people like us is completely atypical, even within the confines of Earth.