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"What are the ethics of writing code that would result in its "suffering"? " I doubt that code can suffer. We do not understand feelings enough and this might
by hutzlibu 5y ago
"What are the ethics of writing code that would result in its "suffering"? "
I doubt that code can suffer. We do not understand feelings enough and this might help to understand it eventually - but for now I see no reason to assume that they can recreated digitally.
And I am much more worried, about many real life beings that suffer in our food chain and co.
- mshroyer 5y agoWhy would we assume subjective experience can't be recreated digitally? Inert "code" can't suffer, of course. But assuming we accept the materialistic view, what reason do we have to believe that a mind in a simulated body has any less subjective experience than a mind in a "real" body?
- hutzlibu 5y ago"what reason do we have to believe that a mind in a simulated body has any less subjective experience than a mind in a "real" body? " That reality is seemingly indefinitely complex and any simulation we have, very simplifying. I am pretty sure, for emotions and co, it takes a bit more sophisticated simulation - if it can be achieved digitally, at all.