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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by bumby on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:55AM (#21536387)
This may be a clunky analogy, but is this fundamentally different than a killing a human as long as we keep a record of their DNA sequence? Maintaining the information doesn't seem enough to negate snuffing out the execution of that information
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by marcus_holmes on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:37PM (#21539722)
The generic AI could be "playing" in a thousand virtual environments at once. Killing one of them doesn't really have a parallel in human life, or ethics.

I mean, yes, you killed a sentient being. But if that sentient being has a thousand concurrent lives, then what does "killing" one of those lives even mean? And if it can respawn another identical life in a millisecond, does it even count as killing?

I suspect that having sentient virtual entities will provide philosophy and ethics majors a lot of deep thinking room. As it already has for SciFi authors.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by bumby on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:08AM (#21544431)
Would this opinion change if scientists were able to prove the multiverse theory where there are infinite numbers of "us" living concurrent lives as well?
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by BjorksEgo on Thursday November 14, 2019 @11:54AM (#21536957)
Not if we persist the state of the mind before we turn them off. Can't do that with humans
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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by marcus_holmes on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:32PM (#21539659)
yet
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