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Re:Alien intelligence and the concept of technology by throwaway290 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @05:49AM (#31788539)
Sadly, philosophy can and (whether they should or not) certain philosophical positions do apparently make it acceptable to hurt others. It doesn't make it legal, but it can make it ethically inconsequential and render relevant laws as nonsensical in the eye of the holder of such views. See A Glitch in the Matrix, for example.
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Re:Alien intelligence and the concept of technology by nathias on Saturday June 18, 2022 @05:57AM (#31788565)
First of all I know what you mean, and I disagree, but this isn't the issue at all. Ontology talkes about being qua being on the largest possible abstraction, so saying that merely making abstraction somehow implies whatever is beyond idiotic.
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