billswift comments on Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 12 January 2010 09:26:38AM 5 points [-]

Of the three possibilities for the far future, the Malthusian scenario is the least bad. A singleton would be worse, and extinction worse yet. That doesn't mean I favor a Malthusian result, just that the alternatives are worse.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 14 January 2010 09:25:45AM 1 point [-]

I don't agree that there are only three non-negligible possibilities, but putting that aside, why do you think the Malthusian scenario would be better than a singleton? (I believe even Robin thinks that a singleton, if benevolent, would be better than the Malthusian scenario.)