This was a session at the Shiny Green Acorn Festival.
Participants
Discussion
Cosmists vs. Terrans: what is the SolSeed position? Gaian?
- Dr. Mautner’s Gaianism says “don’t let machines take over, but do evolve humans to be able to live in space”
- We’re pro-diversity/complexity-of-machine-life, so maybe we’re Diversitarians
- The thing we’re saddest about is the fact that humans are wiping out so much diversity
- We do like habits, which are conservative (e.g. Brandon ate the same Subway sandwich for lunch every workday for a while) – lack of diversity in our day-to-day lives
- The worst would be if machines wiped out complex life and then turned out to be insane in a way that led to wiping themselves out
- Dr. Mautner kind of wants to replace all life with his evolved space-dwelling humans
Possible futures