तो we should not create sentient life. or life. because to live is to suffer, to exist is to be in pain1.
but then, if we do not, there is no joy, there is only being. a stone *is*
is joy better than being?
in many schools of thought, the way out, the solution, the answer, is to learn *being*. to others, it seems silly to expect the living to know how to *be*.
But that is the model we have for animal minds, that somehow, they are closer to stone than we are2, which is why we are all allowed to objectify them. Not for medical experiments, but for social. Close, but not a stone.
I’m saying, be it human-made life or human-made intelligence, be it silicon or carbon, the choices, options, methods, motivations have enough overlap for transfer. What have we learned from parenting? we’ve been doing it for millions of years.
The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
- For others it is because life is sacred, and the sacred is the domain of the divine, and that is a domain we were kicked out of for eating the wrong apple ↩︎
- But that is now not a cool thing to believe, because having a pet stone is fine, but if your life revolves around your pet stone, there’s something wrong with you, right? unless your stone has a very specific mineral composition: for some, carbon for others silicon ↩︎