[ajross]

> the obvious question is: Which [of having babies vs. building datacenters] is more worthwhile to us as a species

Uh... no, it's not. You're making an argument in the opposite direction as Altman, but recapitulating the same moral flaw.

The point is that viewing human procreation as "worthwhile" or having "value" or being "expensive" is the logic of slavery. People are people, not assets. We don't have babies to make our lives better, we have babies to make THEIR lives better.

[satisfice]

Altman’s moral flaw stems partly from an identity failure: he does not see himself as human. He sees himself as The Chosen One. He is transhuman. He can sympathize with humans but never empathize.