Jayson_Virissimo comments on Ontological Crisis in Humans - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 December 2012 05:32PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 19 December 2012 12:52:54AM 2 points [-]

When is a fetus or baby capable of feeling pain (that has moral disvalue)?

At some point between being a blob of cells and being a fully formed baby popping out of Mommy, with the disvalue on a sliding scale. Where is the crisis?

For non-human animals, I disapprove of torturing animals for kicks, but am fine with using animals for industrial purposes, including food and medical testing. No crisis here either.

In life, I don't kill people, and I also don't alleviate a great deal of death and suffering that I might. I eat meat, I wear leather, and support abortion rights. No crisis. And I don't see a lot of other people in crisis over such things either.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 19 December 2012 03:31:21AM 4 points [-]

Are you suggesting that AI will avoid cognitive dissonance by using compartmentalization like humans do?