Technoguyrob comments on How sure are you that brain emulations would be conscious? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Technoguyrob 26 August 2013 08:40:48PM *  0 points [-]

I spend time worrying about whether random thermal fluctuation in (for example) suns produces sporadic conscious moments simply due to random causal structure alignments. Since I also believe most potential conscious moments are bizarre and painful, that worries me. This worry is not useful when embedded in systems one, a worry which the latter was not created to cope with, so I only worry in the system two philosophical curiosity sense.

Comment author: Rukifellth 27 August 2013 03:24:58PM 0 points [-]

I find Boltzmann Brains to be more of an unconvincing thought experiment than an actual possibility.

Since I also believe most potential conscious moments are bizarre and painful, that worries me.

Is this concern altruistic/compassionate?