Philosophy at the Transhuman Edge

Nick Bostrom, currently a research fellow at Oxford, thinks about utilitarian ethics at extremely large scales: are we living in a Matrix-style simulation, why clones would not be happy with bans on cloning, do we have a moral duty to colonize space, what are ethical courses of action to avoid extinction?

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on March 22, 2003 at 12:00 am and filed under science, technology. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.