Three steps to sanity: 1. Mars base for the elite 2. Mind uploading for the sane 3. Take the latter to the former and leave the rest to rot. It sounds cruel, but really there is no configuration of human beings that isn't cruel. There is no ethical society under biology.
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Well, it shouldn't be forced on anyone. However, I think MOST people will want such technology. Most people will not turn down "here, have a more vivid life and have more of the only capacity that matters in modernity." So it wouldn't need to be.
It should be forced on people. On simple consequentialist grounds.
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The precedent "We will structure your mind to ensure you are as efficient as possible" scares me. I do not like where that could lead. Maybe this is a slippery slope argument, I don't know - but my position is total morphological self-determination.
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The apple must be eaten to its core. There is no gesture of longing so small as to not be construed as consent in this case.
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