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I think it's worth noting that truly unlimited power means being able to undo anything. But is it wrong to rewind when things go south? if you rewind far enough you'll be erasing lives and conjuring up new different ones. Is rewinding back to before an AI explodes into a zillion copies morally equivalent to destroying them in this direction of time? unlimited power is unlimited ability to direct the future. Are the lives on every path you don't choose "on your shoulders" so to speak?
It does seem intuitively right to say that killing something already existing is worse than not creating it in the first place.
(Though, formalizing this intuition is murder. Literally.)
No, murder requires that you kill someone (there are extra moral judgements necessary but the killing is rather unambiguous.)
I read that quote as saying "if you formalize this intuition, you wind up with the definition of murder". While not entirely true, that statement does meet the "kill" requirement.