Sidenote: Now this is another potentially flammable issue that contains that pesky thing known as emotion, but I’m going to attempt to address this issue in as dispassionate way as I can, for the purposes of a valid discussion. I’ve been married, and now I’m not. So, where I previously had one wife, I now have exactly 1.0 wives less…
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Sidenote: Try to answer this question without mentioning any mathematical temporal intervals to measure duration, like ‘Years/weeks/minutes/seconds etc…’ What is time? (Okay, go…)
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Humanity hasn’t faced a serious threat to its existence since the plague ravished Europe, on a smaller scale, hundreds of thousands died of cholera (which still do in underdeveloped countries), the two world wars, or anything like the environmental calamities such as the end of the dinosaurs or the ice age. Until now. It’s possible AI won’t rise up in…
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This is my opinion on my we have kids in a world where we are already the ‘dominant’ species. This is my ethical view for, and this is the against side, go here. For background on this (and what I mean by dominant), go here, part 1 of this series, and part 2. ————————— There’s over 7 billion people in this planet. So, our numbers are good. And there’s a bunch of…
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This is the ethical view for further procreation in a world where we are already are the ‘dominant’ species. For the against side, go here. For background on this (and what I mean by dominant), go here, part 1 of this series, and part 2. ———————— Neil Strauss says (or at least he used to), that the purpose of life is to 1) survive and 2)…
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This is the ethical view against further procreation in a world where we are already the ‘dominant’. For background on this (and what I mean by dominant), go here. And this is part 2 in a Deep Dive into why we have kids. Here’s part 1 and part 2. ——————– Neil Strauss says that the purpose of life (or at least he used…
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This is part 2 in a Deep Dive into why we have kids. Here’s part 1. –———————————- * The word ‘dominant’ in the title of this, in reference to us humans, refers to our potential (beneficial or destructive) influence in this planet. So even though plantlife or animal life may have some greater influence on the planet that we are…
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This is a deep dive into the emotion that possibly decides more things in our life (or our whole life?): Fear. Here’s part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6. I don’t have any kids. And I don’t want any that bad either. But I’m 35 and male so it’s not a problem yet (and…
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Why does each species exist? The answer is in the question – To exist. And to exist into the future. Humans, Dogs, Tapeworms, Plum trees responsibility as a living organism is first and foremost to its own species. Yes, humans domesticate and care for pets, help save the whales and do conservation work with turtles, but if the shit really hit the fan…
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After I went up to the front desk at my local library the other day, I remembered I forgot to get something else (remember to forget – does that exist?). And as I did, I left a copy of Nick Bostrom’s seminal Superintelligence on the counter (any book that has cover quote from Bill Gates and Elon Musk –perhaps the two…