- I failed to tweet Ted Peter’s excellent #SoCIA2016 talk on ethical issues in astrobio. Diff strategies for peer/inferior/advanced aliens!
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780148194957258752
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 20:53:18 - But now, Brian Green on “Convergences in the ethics of space exploration” at #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780148294936883200
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 20:53:42 - Alien as divine judgment/test: advanced aliens watching how we deal w/ inferior aliens. (But why are advanced ones doing this?) #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780148810735558662
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 20:55:45 - Not the Golden Rule but the Uranium Rule (cold war name): “do unto others as they could/would do unto you.” #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780149016759791616
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 20:56:34 - Manifest complexity. Especially the value of the sociality-reason-culture triad that produces ethics. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780149723265167360
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 20:59:23 - Deep into ethics for the last two talks of #SoCIA2016. First, astrobiology and natural law. Requires thinking of all life as purposeful.
https://twitter.com/adamqp/status/780150881404784640
— Adam Potthast (@adamqp)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:03:59 - Tech-driven growth mindset “pursue new things instead of competing; multiply resources via tech” = silicon valley libertarinaism #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780151003568017408
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:04:28 - Space exploration is instance of this? SpaceX has natural monopoly on colonizing Mars! #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780151235416584193
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:05:23 - Natural law ethics: living organisms have built-in personal teleology. Do it well! Doing it excellently = virtue. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780151797163909124
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:07:37 - Organisms should be morally ranked by their capacity for excellence? How are we measuring that exactly? #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780152343505625093
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:09:47 - All moral systems need to have a system of ethics that bridges nature to teleology. This is trivial; otherwise it’s not moral. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780153023519657985
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:12:30 - Try to avoid lose-lose situations when possible. Thus, we should go be excellent (extractive?) on lifeless rocks & moons! #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780154416049623042
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:18:02 - If you have to judge between goals (which you do), the “better” ones are the non-zero-sum ones. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780156409761660931
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:25:57 - And now, the final #SoCIA2016 talk: @adamqp on “Ethical obligations between us & extraterrestial life”!
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780156564028198915
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:26:34 - Reminder: ETL = extraterrestrial life. ETI = intelligence. For twitter, I'll use these interchangably. This is ethics not bio. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780156834963423234
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:27:38 - Begins with a discussion of aliens in underpants. Critical moral value y/n? #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780156942878666752
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:28:04 - Obvious that we have duties to conscious/rational/sensate/communicative ETI, and vice versa. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780157177449345024
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:29:00 - BUT: only have obligations to rational/sentient beings, and ETL probably won’t be those. Thus, no obligations to it? #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780157291479830528
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:29:27 - Kantian ethics: humans have value b/c of rational beings. But he was wrong: see how we treat pets, even strays. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780157610611863552
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:30:43 - JS Mills (Utilitarianism). Moral community of all sentient beings: it’s about experiencing pleasure/pain. Which has its own trap. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780157918138228736
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:31:56 - Rationality and sentience are products of brains, a particular evolutionary heritage. Only a subset of Earthlife has ‘em. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780158236930506752
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:33:12 - Given how rare sentient-brains are in Earth, they’re very contingent. Unlikely to happen independently? #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780159083034845184
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:36:34 - Diverse Solution Conjecture: we think our functional states (e.g. pleasure/pain) are only way to solve resource problem. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780159235904704512
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:37:11 - Emojis used to excellent effect here. A+ art design. #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780159745944645632
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:39:12 - We have considerable ethical duties to ourselves: self-development, nurture respect for humanity, promote own happiness, etc #SoCIA2016
https://twitter.com/BenCKinney/status/780160246727737344
— Benjamin C. Kinney (@BenCKinney)Sun, Sep 25 2016 21:41:12
