Vladimir_Nesov comments on Torture Simulated with Flipbooks - Less Wrong
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I'm starting to sympathize with PlaidX's complaint. If what you really want to ask is, "Could a flipbook be conscious?" then why not just say that? The torture is completely irrelevant.
Asking whether the simulation is morally relevant is putting the question as a decision problem, rather than classification by a poorly specified concept.
But it is reasonable to expect that most decisions will be based solely on the poorly specified classification.