Re: Why Not a Planet Of The Apes?

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:37:19 -0700 (PDT)

I tried to explain:
> By "domestication" I meant getting the primates to understand and keep
> the peace, so we needn't fear their presense. To trade instead of
> steal, etc. I would very much want them to not be slaves, but to have
> their own spaces, property, etc.

Eric Watt Forste replied:
>If this is what you meant by domesticate, then your project sounds
>extremely ambitious to me, considering how many undomesticated members
>of the primate species H. sapiens sapiens we still have to worry about.

To explain better, what I meant by "domestication" includes both what
you don't like, essentially slavery, and what you do, free economic
agents. Either condition would be better for them than extinction.

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/