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shminux comments on [Link] SMBC on choosing your simulations carefully - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: RolfAndreassen 06 June 2012 05:41PM

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Comment author: shminux 06 June 2012 06:10:21PM 2 points [-]

My first thought: people chipped liked that would have so much more incentive to suicide in case of trouble. My second thought: chipped people would care a lot less about living a safe and healthy lifestyle, since they get to live out the rest of their normal life span in the chip-world matrix.

Comment author: DanielLC 07 June 2012 12:01:45AM 6 points [-]

My first thought: Can you trigger the chip without dying, and live happily for orders of magnitude longer?