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Alexander Gabriel's avatar

I'm interested in how this affects the debate between transhumanist and pro-human positions. In favor of the transhumanists would be that people don't care about tradition. But that they don't care about development or technological innovation seems to favor the pro-human side. And which position is more "warm"?

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srdiamond's avatar

Maybe very-far mode is concerned with morality because the moral character of the group's future was what primal humans had the most control over. [Edit: But note, this assumes group selectionism or that the selection involved is cultural.] They could tell what practices, if extrapolated, damaged societal morals, but their technologies were too feeble to allow them knowingly to influence the distant future in more directly productive ways.

Anyway, if people are interested at all in the distant future, it's to influence it. Nobody wants to read about a dystopia except (if even then) accompanied by a political program to avoid it.

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