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Re:In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster by chr1 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:27PM (#16407740)
> virtual torture typically drives victims insane.

Is that self evident though? It seems like the difference between pleasure and pain is that pain is a signal that is interpreted as "get out of here, or you may die". And brain is pretty flexible when it comes to reinterpretting the meaning of signals. E.g. with food taste, some tastes that induce revulsion on first try, become peculiar and interesting after a while.

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Re:In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster by mirimir on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:12PM (#16409762)
Yes, and that's part of the strategy that Envoys (and presumably, real life counterparts) use in resisting torture. But with virtual torture, the victim can experience thousands of AI-driven sessions with a clock rate that's thousands of times faster than normal. So years of torture in hours.
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