Icelus comments on Torture Simulated with Flipbooks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Icelus 07 June 2011 07:38:44AM 0 points [-]

Yes, it fails to repeat the computation, simply because there is no machine doing active computation.

Although whether or not using cached values to make a person in a sim think they were tortured is a moral quandary to me. Highly relevant is this lw post linked to elsewhere in this thread here.