William_S comments on Superintelligence 17: Multipolar scenarios - Less Wrong

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Comment author: William_S 10 January 2015 02:48:40AM *  2 points [-]

I think the way that people would take out of this is avoiding assigning personhood status to virtual minds. There are already considerations that would weigh against virtual minds getting personhood status in the opinions of many people today, and if there are cases like this where assigning personhood creates and obvious and immediate problem, it might tip the balance of motivated cognition.