Should we care about people who need never exist?

Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by nuc1e0n on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:26PM (#34221597)

The universe is effectively infinite btw. Most people quite like potatoes and if there's a larger population more people can be musicians. The bloody minded bean counter mentality is more religion than anything.

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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by tzs on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:51PM (#34222755)

> The universe is effectively infinite btw

But we are limited to the part of the universe that we can access.

We've got a single planet we can easily access.

We've got a few more planets we can reasonably access with reasonably foreseeable improvements to our technology.

Past that, unless there are some major fundamental physics breakthroughs, we've got no even remotely plausible way to make use of any resource outside the solar system in any volume that makes a noticeable difference.

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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by nuc1e0n on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:02PM (#34222893)

I'd say we're more limited by failure of imagination than anything else.

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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by pessimizer on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:03PM (#34222914)

Failure to constrain our imagination to our available resources.

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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by nuc1e0n on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:06PM (#34222947)

I'd say 'constrain' is the wrong word to use here. 'tailor' may be better.

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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by jemmyw on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:33PM (#34223970)

Eat imaginary potatoes?

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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by nuc1e0n on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:46PM (#34225393)

Umm. Ok. how about... CRISPR edited potatoes that have been made to taste like apricots? ;P

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