[ravel-bar-foo]

By nature of being human and prioritizing my own existence and the existence of the people I love, I fundamentally believe humans (specifically these humans) have more moral worth than "digital beings." In fact, digital beings only have value to me insofar as they help humans and don't harm humans. I'm a human chauvinist, and proud of it.

[cwkoss]

That's valid. I think we could eventually make digital beings that are more moral than ourselves.

[ravel-bar-foo]

For that one would have to define morality. Also, the iterated evolutionary game theory of life supports the emergence of moralities among creatures which gain fitness by cooperating well to form groups that are more successful than individuals. It is not clear that digital beings will be cooperative social creatures.

[leventov]

It might be that humanity becoming non-chauvinistic about their value is the necessary thing for survival.