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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Do Virtual Humans deserve human rights? - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: cameroncowan 11 September 2014 07:20PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 September 2014 06:54:40AM 2 points [-]

If you wonder why this is downvoted despite it being on-tipic: It hasn't enough flesh for a topic that isn't discussed the first time. You could add [link] to your post and add at least a few refs to existing discussions. Or just post this in the media thread.

Comment author: cameroncowan 12 September 2014 04:55:45PM 0 points [-]

I wasn't that concerned about it but I honestly didn't want to burden the topic down with tedious commentary and links to other relevant discussion. It was meant to be a short lived discussion on an independent topic. If I had wanted to do all that I would have written an essay on the subject.

Comment author: Toggle 13 September 2014 05:04:58AM *  3 points [-]

You might also get a more positive response to narrowly focused subjects within this fairly large philosophical question. Your post is a bit 'transhumanism 101', and most LW posters have long since started wrangling with these ethics on a deeper level.

As a random example: Since uploaded minds can replicate themselves easily, is there a role for representative democracies in a world where this technology is available?

Comment author: cameroncowan 14 September 2014 07:46:53PM 0 points [-]

That's ok, I won't be posting further.