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hairyfigment comments on Torture Simulated with Flipbooks - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hairyfigment 27 May 2011 08:08:18PM 0 points [-]

I think I agree with all but the last sentence. But I definitely would not feel comfortable creating more physical objects that might exhibit probabilistic causality if you knew their source, and that describe perfectly a person feeling torture.

I think I could justify drawing a line between this and the process of flipping, despite the flips creating patterns of photons, because the fact that papers in a box have different patterns of ink on them should have similar effects on the world around them.