[extropy-chat] Are ancestor simulations immoral? (An attempted survey)

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Samantha Atkins wrote:
> On May 24, 2006, at 1:55 PM, BillK wrote:
> 
>>That's better.  :)
>>Post singularity, the FAI it won't be like a super head of the FBI and
>>NSA combined, that we talk about and discuss whether we approve the
>>latest political move.
>>
>>We will *LOVE* it with an all consuming passion. It will be our 'God'.
>>We won't have any choice in the matter. It's nanobots will amend our
>>puny brains as it sees fit.
> 
> If I thought so then I would do my utmost to kill it dead in its crib.

Second the motion.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence