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Humans have no problem in letting billions suffer in real life. Are beings in a simulation "sentient"? This seems illogical.

• blacksmith_tb 12y ago
  Perhaps we aren't highly advanced enough yet to care (some of us do, some of us don't - and relatively few extend that concern to say, lichens, admittedly). As to whether or not simulated beings could be sentient, well, if we're all living in a simulation now, I say the answer is 'yes' - I hope...