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shminux 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: shminux 12 September 2014 03:44:40PM 2 points [-]

Right, we extend "human rights" to potentially self-aware humans (sometimes including fetuses) and no-longer-self-aware humans, and generally anything with human DNA which appears human, but that's where the majority gets thinner. In actuality the Schelling point is more like a fading line than a point.