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> so more chances of it gaining whatever level of sentience the actual organism has Yeah but people have no problems experimenting on actual fully working mice
by IshKebab 8mo ago
> so more chances of it gaining whatever level of sentience the actual organism has
Yeah but people have no problems experimenting on actual fully working mice already.
- perching_aix 8mo agoYes *, and in the real world. The question then is if you rate that to be an equivalent existential horror to being a varyingly maldeveloped, malnutritioned, disembodied version of those mice, forced to live out life in a low fidelity version of the Matrix [0], potentially in constant or recurring agony. You get a potential match or approximate match in cognitive ability and operation, but with a lot different set of circumstances. * They kinda do have a problem with that too, that's why ethics committees exist, and why the term "animal testing" pops up in the news cycle every so often. [0] https://xcancel.com/alexwg/status/2030217301929132323 https://xcancel.com/alexwg/status/2030217301929132323