Al Horeya wrote:The Emerald Legion wrote:See... lots of people say that, but as humanity is the source of value it would thus logically depend on value existing, so any value at all would depend on someone being there to value it.
Making it so that no matter what system of values you have, it's logically impossible, under the proposed idea for humans to be anything but the top tier.
Personally, I think knowledge has intrinsic value, and thus humanity has intrinsic value. Or at least a goodly chunk of it.
...what? Humanity is not the source of value. A monkey may value bananas. That is true whether humans exist or not. Besides, if anything, it puts the individual at the helm: whether humanity is of value or not depends on whether said individual values others. I, too, am a lover of knowledge. If the OP read "Would you strangle strange children in order to become hyperintelligent," my only question would be the chances of my being caught. Why? Because I value knowledge and intelligence more than I value strangers.
Would you?
Crownariam wrote:God Kefka wrote:
1. How much smarter?
2. Smarter in what way and with respect to which skills?
3. Would I get caught?
4. Which children?
1. Their current IQ is added to yours.
2. The area that they are smart in, and their skills. For example kill a sword prodigy, you are now a sword prodigy.
3. Depends on how smart you are.
4. You choose
Luveria wrote:Vareiln wrote:You know what, can we just not have these threads with vague hypotheticals?
They are really too vague to work with.
It doesn't specify if accidentally killing a child counts. It doesn't specify if ranged assassinations count. It doesn't specify if killing children by proxy such as hiring hitmen to kill children counts. It isn't specificed if convincing a child to commit suicide counts as having killed them.
It still counts.
I never said that they had to be human children.
