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0 pointsmtgx9y ago0 comments

For treating them like slaves. You wouldn't mind being a slave for a few decades or hundreds of years if you were immortal?

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arethuza9y ago

"You wouldn't mind being a slave for a few decades or hundreds of years if you were immortal?"

Being immortal implies you could, in the worse case, be kept as a slave for ever - which is a sufficient risk that I'd be appalled at the idea. I'm equally horrified at the idea of conscious machine slaves just as much as human slaves - but maybe I've been reading too many Culture novels...

veridies9y ago

Slightly off topic, but I'm horrified by the idea of ever creating consciousness in machines. Imagine we built a piece of software that could feel, and built controls for its emotions. I can't imagine it would take long before some bored teenager or sociopath, who in earlier years would torture individual squirrels or insects, created an infinite suffering machine. You could run thousands of instances of your suffering machine and simulate a holocaust on your desktop. That's not a power I would trust the world with.

JoeAltmaier9y ago

You can do that now. Write a console app, where if you type 'pain' it prints 'oh! How I'm suffering!'.

I don't see how that software is essentially different from the proposed software.

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