http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3371 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3371#comment-860537 Tim Tyler Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:22:25 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3371#comment-860537 The "Moral Railroads" post isn't really right :-( In biology, agents want to do better than their fellow agents. Their fellow agents want the same thing for themselves. Thus, their goals naturally conflict. Agents fight with each other over territory, resources and mates. They fight with predators, pathogens and manipulators over who gets to make use of their own bodies. They simply don't all want the same thing to happen. The “Moral Railroads” post isn’t really right In biology, agents want to do better than their fellow agents. Their fellow agents want the same thing for themselves. Thus, their goals naturally conflict. Agents fight with each other over territory, resources and mates. They fight with predators, pathogens and manipulators over who gets to make use of their own bodies. They simply don’t all want the same thing to happen.

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