From: Reason (reason@vipmobile.com)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 10:39:33 MDT
--> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> In the past, you've made it
> clear that, if you are a computer simulation, you would consider
> yourself to be the private property of the simulator. Do you consider
children to be
> the private property of their parents?
I would consider it eminently reasonably that this be the case until said
children can pass Turing tests. One of the things you're dancing around here
is the morality and legality of considering harm to potential
Turing-test-passing entities equivelant to harm to Turing-test-passing
entities; and what defines "potential" anyway? Ones that can get there by
themselves, or with minimal help, or only with a lot of help? Strong
resemblances to the abortion/cloning debate and the slope that leads to it
being unacceptable to destroy individual cells.
Reason
http://www.exratio.com
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