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But trying to empathize with someone who is going to live thousands of years from now seems like designing software based on speculative requirements changes. Y
by default-kramer 9y ago
But trying to empathize with someone who is going to live thousands of years from now seems like designing software based on speculative requirements changes. You end up with a custom DSL for a custom rules engine and only 2 rules ever got written with it. Except that predicting what humanity will be like in 1000 years is harder than predicting what your software will be like in 10 years.
- glenstein 9y agoTrue, we can't make predictions in the form of hyperparticularizations. But we can make predictions in broad strokes about industrialization and ecology and how our current behaviors will serve the welfare of future generations in those respects.
- HillRat 9y agoA rule I would consider would be that any decision should, all else being equal, maximize the degrees of freedom available to other persons relative to other exclusionary options. Obviously, this would require quite a bit of further discussion and fleshing out as to its precise meaning, but I'd take it as a starting point for philosophical analysis.