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4/ which is, I think, a core part of
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5/ so anyway, we live in a very rich weird time right now, and we can afford all sorts of ethical indulgences (ties into my thoughts on slavery - how ODDLY CONVENIENT that we found it immoral...soon after steam engines were invented! Corollary: if tech tied tomorrow, >>>
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6/ ...slavery would be re-invented by Monday, with whatever ethical hand waving we need to justify it, because the alternative is people doing their own labor. So, anyway, re waking up in 3,000 AD, or 300,000 AD, if we imagine a poorer age (per capita), why would we expect
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7/ Rich Era ethics to hold? Someone frozen in 5,000 BC and woken up in 1,000 AD North America has a pretty good expectation of being tortured. Waking up in 300 AD Italy, a pretty good chance of being enslaved.
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8/ One reason I am very dubious about cryonics is that I doubt that wealth transfer from now until then will work, and I find the likelihood of waking up as property of some sort to be all too high.
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No I think his point will be "then we have an objective way to measure improvements in morality and compare morally different cultures"
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I also asked about what would have happened 1000 years ago. So 3 scenarios to compare.
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