lavalamp comments on Timeless Identity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 02 October 2013 09:50:52PM 1 point [-]

OK, in a hypothetical world where somehow pausing a conscious computation--maintaining all data such that it could be restarted losslessly--is murder, those are concerns. Agreed. I'm not arguing against that.

My position is that pausing a computation as above happens to not be murder/death, and that those who believe it is murder/death are mistaken. The example I'm looking for is something objective that would demonstrate this sort of pausing is murder/death. (In my view, the bad thing about death is its permanence, that's most of why we care about murder and what makes it a moral issue.)