Robin Hanson writes:
> Actually, people seem to *not* care about their future selves in the same
> way that those future selves will care about themselves. Maybe the difference
This cannot be said too often. Imo, the ethics emanating from much of
Greg Egan is of a distinctly chilly quality. (I've only recently had a
chance to read Diaspora and Permutation City. Diaspora is imo outright
bleak, and Permutation City suffers from that abovementioned lack of
ethics -- and I'm not the type of person prone to warm fuzzies).
> isn't as large as it might become in the future, but it is large enough to
> be a major current argument for various forms of regulation and limitations
> on choice.
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