From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 18:45:04 MST
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Couldn't have said it better. PLEASE rethink this awful meme/tag, people.
I think the comments by Damien's friend have some merit. This goes
fairly deeply to some philisophical topics I sometimes try to touch
upon. There is no such thing as an objective "better". Better always
must be entirely subjective (even if you get 99% of the rest of the
humans on the planet to agree that *your* version of better *really*
is better). [All you have to do is get one post-human AI which is
clearly superior to a human to say your version of "better" is caca
and you are s.o.l.] I can make a completely reasonable argument
that humans in the OEM form (i.e. natural) are "better" than anything
we can invent ourselves.
The site should at the least be changed to something like
www.betterhumansIMO.org, or something similar with lots
of disclaimers on the first page that they are not trying
to assert an absolute "better". (Which is really hard to
do if you choose to use that word.)
Robert
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