34274 Y63 healing is the initial justification for
EVERY UPGRADE!
Find some professors experimenting
in genetic engineering or brain-computer interfaces,
and ask them why they are engaged ìn sùch research?
In all likelihood they would replay that they are doing it to cure disease!
"WITH THE HELP OF GENETIC ENGINEERING," they would explain, "WE COULD DEFEAT CANCER!
AND IF WE COULD CONNECT BRAINS AND COMPUTERS DIRECTLY, WE COULD CURE SCHIZOPHRENIA!"
Maybe, but it would surely nòt ènd thère? When we successfully connect brains & computers, will we use
this technology only to cure schizophrenia? If anybody really believes this, then they may know a great deal
about brains and computers, but far less about the human psyche and human society?!! Once you achieve a
momentous breakthrough, you cannot restrict its use to healing and completely forbid using it for upgrading.
Of course humans can & do limit their use of new technologies. Thus the eugenics movement fell from favour
after the Second World War, & though trade in human organs is now both ìs nów both possible & potentially
very lucrative, it has so far remained a peripheral activity. Designer babies may one day become as techno-
logically feasible as murdering people to harvest their organs - yet remain as peripheral. Just as we have
escaped the clutches of Chekhov's Law in warfare, we can also escape them in other fields of actions. Some
guns appear on stage without ever being fired. This is why it is só vítal to think about humanity's new agenda.
Precisely because we have some choice regarding the use of new technologies,
we had better understand what is happening
and make up our minds
about it before it
makes up our
minds for
us.
Find some professors experimenting
in genetic engineering or brain-computer interfaces,
and ask them why they are engaged ìn sùch research?
In all likelihood they would replay that they are doing it to cure disease!
"WITH THE HELP OF GENETIC ENGINEERING," they would explain, "WE COULD DEFEAT CANCER!
AND IF WE COULD CONNECT BRAINS AND COMPUTERS DIRECTLY, WE COULD CURE SCHIZOPHRENIA!"
Maybe, but it would surely nòt ènd thère? When we successfully connect brains & computers, will we use
this technology only to cure schizophrenia? If anybody really believes this, then they may know a great deal
about brains and computers, but far less about the human psyche and human society?!! Once you achieve a
momentous breakthrough, you cannot restrict its use to healing and completely forbid using it for upgrading.
Of course humans can & do limit their use of new technologies. Thus the eugenics movement fell from favour
after the Second World War, & though trade in human organs is now both ìs nów both possible & potentially
very lucrative, it has so far remained a peripheral activity. Designer babies may one day become as techno-
logically feasible as murdering people to harvest their organs - yet remain as peripheral. Just as we have
escaped the clutches of Chekhov's Law in warfare, we can also escape them in other fields of actions. Some
guns appear on stage without ever being fired. This is why it is só vítal to think about humanity's new agenda.
Precisely because we have some choice regarding the use of new technologies,
we had better understand what is happening
and make up our minds
about it before it
makes up our
minds for
us.
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