Kutta comments on Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Wei_Dai 03 June 2010 08:30PM

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Comment author: Kutta 04 June 2010 09:52:10PM 5 points [-]

Featherless biped.

Comment author: Gabriel 04 June 2010 11:36:20PM 16 points [-]

Ten thousand years later, postkangaroo children learn from their history books about Kutta, the one who has chosen to share the future with his marsupial brothers and sisters :)

Comment author: Strange7 07 June 2010 11:58:09PM 3 points [-]

If an upload remembers having had legs, and/or is motivated to acquire for itself a body with exactly two legs and no feathers, please explain either how this definition would adequately exclude uploads or why you are opposed to equal rights for very young children (not yet capable of walking upright) and amputees.

Comment author: anonym 05 June 2010 03:27:50AM 2 points [-]

Includes sexbots, and excludes uploaded versions of me.

Comment author: Blueberry 05 June 2010 08:40:46AM 1 point [-]

The point is to exclude uploaded versions of you. I'm more concerned about including plucked chickens.

BTW, what is the difference between a sexbot and a catgirl?

Comment author: anonym 05 June 2010 07:54:09PM 2 points [-]

A sexbot is a robot for sex -- still a human under the featherless biped definition as long as has two legs and no feathers.

If the point is to exclude "uploaded versions", what counts as uploaded? How about if I transfer my mind (brain state) to another human body? If that makes me still a human, what rational basis is there for defining a mind-body system as human or not based on the kind of the body it is running in?