From: William Pearson (wil.pearson@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 06:18:28 MDT
2008/10/27 Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp@gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/27 William Pearson <wil.pearson@gmail.com>:
>
>> Would you say it was rational to take a treatment to extend your life
>> by 20 years, if it made you sterile and if female incapable of having
>> IVF? Assuming you weren't sure about the singularity/massive
>> improvements in reproductive tech happening before you died.
>>
>> Not counting potential people at all, seems like a possible recipe for
>> disaster...
>
> Whether it's rational or not depends on your priorities. If you wanted
> to spread your genes as much as possible it would be rational, if you
> wanted to personally live as long as possible it would not. One of the
> main advantages of being human is that you don't have to blindly
> follow the narrow Darwinian program.
>
What is it that causes you not to? Arbitrary choice?
Why shouldn't you follow your Darwinian program? Actually wanting to
survive is part of your darwinian program, just a sub part rather than
all of it. What makes following one of these better than the other?
If there was a well reasoned choice for choosing to maximise your life
over the number of kids you might have, one preference should be more
rational than the other....
Will
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