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Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004
What about ai? Is it ethical to invent a creature which can suffer?

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Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

What about a creature that can't suffer? What if someone made an AI that sensed pleasure a trillion times more than humans and the utility function dictated we had to give all our food to it because it eating it caused more joy per bite than the whole human race combined eating it would have. Thus making humans eating food always immoral.

I think trying to rules lawyer fulfillment of basic needs into being immoral is itself clearly, automatically immoral, but I'm anti-Capitalism.

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004

Strawberry Pyramid posted:

What is the point of creating

It's kinda just what we do, regardless of what you put after this (including children, to circle back to the origin topic)

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