[extropy-chat] Are ancestor simulations immoral?

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/31/06, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
>
> For those who have bought into Kant's Categorical Imperative, then
> that argument will seem to make sense.  "Without a doubt I would not
> want  *my* simulation shut down, given my belief that life is better
> than no life at all, therefore I am morally bound to say that runtime
> of any simulation of sentience is good."


Just to clarify, I do not claim that any sentient simulation must
necessarily be good - only that we have no basis for concluding that any
sentient simulation must necessarily be bad.
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