But the quote is from a hacker news thread, isn't it? Would we want to stop quoting Dennett's books if he became a regular here?
Probably not, but you wouldn't (need to) quote what he wrote here.
EDIT: Or rather, what he's writing since he's here, unless it's still novel to LW.
Every time you imagine a person, that simulated person becomes conscious for the time of your simulation, therefore, it is unethical to imagine people. Actually, it's just morally wrong to imagine someone suffering, but for security reasons, you shouldn't do it at all. Reading fiction (with conflict in it) is, by conclusion, the one human endeavor that has caused more suffering than anything else, and the FAIs first action will be to eliminate this possibility.
I didn't understand that either, maybe "prevent" should be "present"?
I think he meant to write "invent".
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Thank you so much for writing this!