RE: superintelligence and ethical egoism

From: Patrick McCuller (patrick@kia.net)
Date: Sat May 26 2001 - 21:46:46 MDT


>
> Do you really think they would be that uncaring? I would suggest that a
> super intelligence creature would treat us like we treat the lesser
> animals on the earth. We don't purposely go out and kill things just
> because their in the way (although we can be irresponsible if we don't
> notice the consequences of our actions) -- we usually try to get lesser
> animals out of our way in a "humane" way and only when we can not get
> them out of our way do we resort to eradicating them.

        We also vivisect monkeys. Our ethics, as a species, is very speciest.

Patrick McCuller



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