[ExI] far future

[William Flynn Wallace]

It may not be the case that when they reduce their population to two that
both of them are the best at everything, and they are free to make kids who
are different than they are.  One reason I put it so far in the future is
so that experiments can have been done for tens of thousands of years,
pretty much knowing all that we can know about heredity and environment.
Bill


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> On 2014-01-07 22:26, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
>
>> The reason the narrator goes to the future is to learn what changes have
>> been made, and ultimately to vote on them along with the future persons.
>>
> ...
>
>  I am asking all of you for the same reason that the future people are
>> asking the narrator:  is this it?  The best we can be?  For example, since
>> all future people are neither very introverted or very extroverted, could
>> there be reasons for creating such?  Or take any other psych or physical
>> trait.  Is it the best idea to have people mostly the same so there is no
>> comparison, no one-upping one another?  Since there is no violence more
>> variety might not be a problem.  Might.
>>
>
> So why don't they try it out? Isn't there room for experimentation, or if
> anything else, simulation?
>
> If they can bring the narrator to the future, can't they check their own
> future, adjusting things until it looks good?
>
> Generally, when solving problems diverse groups do better than homogeneous
> groups. So if there are problems that need to be solved - including
> emergent unexpected disasters that cannot be predicted - it is better to
> have a variety of cognitive styles represented. They ensure that more of
> the problem space has at least one mind that is particularly good at
> solving problems in that spot.
>
>
> --
> Dr Anders Sandberg
> Future of Humanity Institute
> Oxford Martin School
> Oxford University
>
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