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And to me this is just as sentient (or not) as the physical worm and deserves worm rights!
by anotheryou 3y ago
And to me this is just as sentient (or not) as the physical worm and deserves worm rights!
- bee_rider 3y agoDoes this actually become an interesting question at this point? I guess worms don’t have many rights anyway, but if they did, and this was a totally accurate simulation, why not give the digital worm rights?
- anotheryou 3y agonot interesting for a worm but interesting for a first of its kind
- bee_rider 3y agoI actually don’t know, are there any ethical guidelines for working with very limited animals like this? I know they are pretty limited intelligence wise, but I would hope the researchers at least kill them in a quick, painless manner when the experiments are done. I guess if the computer mode really is true on a physical level it is owed the same (minimal) level of decency somehow.
- anotheryou 3y agoMy point is: let's discuss this before we simulate more complex life and let's not draw some arbitrary line in the sand or call it all "artificial = not worthy anything".
- bee_rider 3y agoYeah, I agree, definitely at least that it is an insufficiently explored ethical issue. I suspect people are just leaning on the intuitive answer (that it is just a computer program), and the fact that we just don’t have the ability to simulate anything that has, like, obvious rights yet. I don’t think the first will really stand up to scrutiny, and the second is clearly a temporary solution (to the extent that it even is a solution).