Scary shit indeed
A quote from Robb Smith's "Warning, scary shit ahead" post:
"At this point in the conference I was so depressed I thought of committing sepuku. We should assemble a credo on integral bioethics. Many of the problems that these scientists are trying to rectify derive from a sole reliance on artifact development (i.e., technology) to solve previous problems, a reiterative process that doesn't solve itself. Our technology development since the Enlightenment has far outstripped our ethical development. Most of the presenters at TED and the TED staff are continuing to look in the wrong places for comprehensive solutions to the questions they are posing, which is why the answers are partial, not integral, and in the most dangerous sense of the world: more purely right-hand empirical development will not change the game, only perpetuate it."Read on.
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I just watched Ventner do a two hour presentation for the Long Now Foundation just before he went to TED. He spoke about this work. It didn't seem that terribly scary to me...
Well, as to the scary factor, it all matters how this stuff is presented, right? And the scariness factor is not a basis for a sound consideration. But it may push us in the right direction. Namely, we only need to do what is rarely done these days, and that is compare techno development and ethical development, and that's when it becomes really scary. What impuls has access to what technologies? We're already in trouble, as you may know. So it's not about something in our future, though that ratio may get even worse.
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