The Morality of Having Kids in a Magical, Maybe Simulated World
Ted Kaczynski had an insight: technology doesn't make things better, it makes them weirder and higher variance. You are not supposed to spend the prime of your life photocopying stuff and doing PowerPoints. You're supposed to chop wood, hunt and maybe wage war. Women are supposed to be pregnant most of the time when they're 16-40. Modern society is... See more
Pause for a moment and imagine a world where robots with the dexterity of human beings that can be âprogrammedâ in plain English are available at the price of a microwave. Can you begin to think of all the uses to which such a valuable technology will be put? Or how widely such tools will be adopted? Who or rather what will be looking after your
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There is even a modern philosophy called âantinatalismâ whose premise is that it is better not to be born. Parents wrong their children by bringing them into the world, the thinking goes, by exposing them to the sufferings of life, which easily outweigh its positive aspects.