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Re:Rationality: From AI to Zombies by ikeboy on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:45PM (#9240857)
Even if it's discontinuous, it still needs to grow incredibly slowly. The ratio of pain neurons that fire for a speck versus for torture over 50 years is nowhere near 3||3. You need a function that grows so slow that outweighs 3||3, which is damn near impossible for any plausible function.
Re:Rationality: From AI to Zombies by zyxley on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:32PM (#9241047)
I care about impact on people, not neuronal activity, and the point I'm making is that there's a minimum below which the real impact on a given person, considered in aggregate with the impact of everything else that's a part of being human, is effectively nil.
Re:Rationality: From AI to Zombies by ikeboy on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:42PM (#9241095)
So at some point you need to say that "person being hurt X" is fine, but "person being hurt X+ one speck" is not.