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DanielLC comments on Ideas wanted: democracy in an Em world - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 09 June 2013 10:04:10PM 0 points [-]

For me, "people" just means conscious beings. An AI or an alien could be a person, but they would be psychologically very different from a human, and asking what they want would be a very difficult question.