Viliam_Bur comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 29 November 2012 08:00:12PM 9 points [-]

By the way, how precise must be a simulation to add measure? Did I commit genocide by watching Star Wars, or is particle-level simulation necessary?

A possible answer could be that an imprecise simulation adds way less, but still nonzero measure, so my pleasure from watching Star Wars exceeds the suffering of all the people dying in the movie, multiplied by the epsilon increase of their measure. (A variant of a torture vs dust specks argument.) Running a particle-level Star Wars simulation would be a real crime.

This would mean there is no clear boundary between simulating and not simulating, so the ethical concerns about simulation must be solved by weighting how detailed is the simulation versus what benefits do we get by running it.

Comment author: Document 17 August 2013 11:01:16PM 0 points [-]

By the way, how precise must be a simulation to add measure? Did I commit genocide by watching Star Wars

Sort of discussed here and here.