生命暂停技术、冷冻技术和灾难性风险。

IF 2.7 2区哲学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Science and Engineering Ethics Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI:10.1007/s11948-024-00498-w

Andrea Sauchelli

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我的论点是，对于结构上与气候变化相关风险类似的风险而言，生命暂停技术可以构成灾难性和生存性的安全因素。论证的要点是，在某些条件下，生命暂停技术（如冷冻技术）可以为自利行为者提供有效解决此类风险的动机--特别是，它们为克服世代利己主义的某些表现形式提供了理由，而世代利己主义是若干灾难性和生存性风险的一个风险因素。只要我们有理由减少气候变化等灾难性和生存性风险，我们也就有了投资开发和普及生命暂停技术的（可击败的）理由。

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Life-Suspending Technologies, Cryonics, and Catastrophic Risks.

I defend the claim that life-suspending technologies can constitute a catastrophic and existential security factor for risks structurally similar to those related to climate change. The gist of the argument is that, under certain conditions, life-suspending technologies such as cryonics can provide self-interested actors with incentives to efficiently tackle such risks-in particular, they provide reasons to overcome certain manifestations of generational egoism, a risk factor of several catastrophic and existential risks. Provided we have reasons to decrease catastrophic and existential risks such as climate change, we also have a (defeasible) reason for investing in developing and making life-suspending technologies (more) widespread.

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Science and Engineering Ethics 综合性期刊-工程：综合

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10.70

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5.40%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Science and Engineering Ethics is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring ethical issues associated with science and engineering, covering professional education, research and practice as well as the effects of technological innovations and research findings on society. While the focus of this journal is on science and engineering, contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, are welcomed. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, ethics of new and emerging technologies, research ethics, computer ethics, energy ethics, animals and human subjects ethics, ethics education in science and engineering, ethics in design, biomedical ethics, values in technology and innovation. We welcome contributions that deal with these issues from an international perspective, particularly from countries that are underrepresented in these discussions.