advancedatheist comments on Stupid Questions June 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EphemeralNight 31 May 2015 02:30:27PM -1 points [-]

I think maybe not if you sign them up for cryonic preservation?

I think it may be much more on point to talk about it being unethical to have children pre-singularity, for the inevitable needless suffering that will occur. I do believe that the moment we solve aging, it is a moral imperative to stop having children until we can be assure that we're not bringing new people into existence just to suffer.

I don't think it is unethical to keep having children today, but only so far as it is necessary to actually reach the singularity. I think ethically, we should be trying to minimize the portion of human mind-space that must experience pre-singularity existence, but not to the point of delaying the singularity.

Comment author: advancedatheist 31 May 2015 03:48:31PM 1 point [-]

I think maybe not if you sign them up for cryonic preservation?

Children of cryonicists have a record of dropping their cryopreservation arrangements when they become adults.

Comment author: James_Miller 31 May 2015 04:27:37PM 2 points [-]

You would expect this from reversion to the mean.