NancyLebovitz comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 February 2011 10:14:07PM 1 point [-]

What if it's researching pain qualia at ordinary levels because it wants to understand the default human experience?

I don't know if we're getting into eye-speck territory, but what are the ethics of simulating an adult human who's just stubbed their toe, and then ending the simulation?

Comment author: shokwave 03 February 2011 07:39:05AM 1 point [-]

I feel like the consequences are net positive, but I don't trust my human brain to correctly determine this question. I would feel uncomfortable with an FAI deciding it, but I would also feel uncomfortable with a person deciding it. It's just a hard question.