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estearum • yesterday at 8:32 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Not GP but yeah I do feel there are some serious ethical problems created by the proliferation of humans and subsequent mass extinction event. Do you not?


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delichon • yesterday at 8:40 PM

No, I'm biased toward our species, and feel that our terrestrial diaspora helped us to survive, and an interstellar one would too.

margalabargala • yesterday at 9:33 PM

Ethical problems being created by a scenario does not necessarily mean that you should not execute that scenario. Sometimes you're caught between a rock and a hard place, and ethical problems are created regardless.

JumpCrisscross • yesterday at 8:36 PM

There are ethical problems created by any conscious action. That doesn’t make sapience problematic per se.