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Enhancement and the Conservative Bias

机译:增强与保守偏见

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Nicholas Agar argues that we should avoid certain ‘radical’ enhancement technologies. One reason for this is that they will alienate us from current sources of value by altering our evaluative outlooks. We should avoid this, even if enhancing will provide us with novel, objectively better sources of value. After noting the parallel between Agar’s views and G. A. Cohen’s work on the ‘conservative bias’, I explore Agar’s suggestion in relation to two kinds of radical enhancement: cognitive and anti-ageing. With regard to both, there are reasons to doubt Agar’s empirical predictions about the severity of the evaluative changes we will undergo. Nonetheless, there is some force to the argument as applied to cognitive enhancement; in particular, radical cognitive enhancement may endanger our current valuable relationships with our loved ones. However, even if we find this a plausible worry for radical cognitive enhancement, it is not plausible for even radical anti-ageing enhancement, because the change Agar predicts will not affect our core motivations in the way that cognitive enhancement threatens to.
机译:尼古拉斯·琼脂(Nicholas Agar)认为,我们应避免使用某些“自由基”增强技术。原因之一是,它们将通过改变我们的评估前景而使我们脱离当前的价值来源。即使增强将为我们提供新颖,客观上更好的价值来源,我们也应避免这种情况。在注意到琼脂的观点与G. A. Cohen在“保守偏见”方面的相似之处之后,我探讨了关于两种根本性增强的琼脂的建议:认知和抗衰老。对于这两者,我们有理由怀疑Agar关于我们将要进行的评估变更的严重性的经验预测。尽管如此,该论点仍存在一定的力量,可用于认知增强。特别是,彻底的认知增强可能会危害我们当前与亲人的宝贵关系。但是,即使我们发现这可能对根本的认知增强感到担忧,但对于根本的抗衰老增强也不可行,因为Agar预测的变化不会以认知增强威胁的方式影响我们的核心动机。

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