[extropy-chat] Are ancestor simulations dangerous to us?

[Keith Henson]

At 01:51 AM 5/24/2006 -0700, Samantha wrote:

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>The level of control necessary to absolutely forbid the creation of
>any intelligent being that would suffer in the created environment
>plus the attendant stifling of abilities of other intelligence by the
>"benevolent" AI would be intolerable.

A closely related thread on the sl4 list brings up an extremely cogent 
reason to forbid simulation of the past.

My contributions:

http://www.sl4.org/archive/0605/15031.html
http://www.sl4.org/archive/0605/15042.html