wedrifid comments on Torture Simulated with Flipbooks - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Amanojack 26 May 2011 01:00AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 26 May 2011 09:25:26AM 13 points [-]

Would this count as simulated torture? If so, would you care about stopping it, or is it different from computer-simulated torture?

Cute idea!

The computations involved in producing the clipbook count as a torture sim. Flipping through the flipbooks just counts as some sort of twisted torture-porn fetish.

Comment author: Icelus 07 June 2011 07:18:23AM 0 points [-]

Agreed. Actual computations have to be performed and I think a useful mental-model is of a turing machine and tape and figuring out what in a situation is part of each.

More here: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/5vx/torture_simulated_with_flipbooks/4b7p