Re: ESSAY: Forward Moral Nihilism

From: Ricardo Barreira (rbarreira@gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 14:49:29 MDT


> > The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest, so I think it's likely
> > there is room for more than one Jupiter brain in it, and even if there are
> > only two morality will be essential.
>
> Here lies your contradiction - Posthuman number 1 will be limited to
> morality/fear of agression if he allows another to ascend to his level of
> intelligence/power. Thus the universe is not big enough.

You're at least assuming that Posthuman number 1 is perfect enough to
know about the possibility of Posthuman number 2 and also that it can
act as quickly as needed to avoid that.



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