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by vmasto
3312 days ago
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So does your NPC. This is what the whole point is about. How does the fact that it lives in a silicon chip make it any different? It suffers like you and I. That's the whole premise of this discussion. You didn't answer my second question. Would you be willing to torture the above mentioned being? |
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> It suffers like you and I. That's the whole premise of this discussion.
No it doesn't. I set some bits to flag it as suffering. Its suffering is very different from our suffering because it does not experience it in any real way. Bits change in memory, maybe some get flushed to disk, but it's still just executable code and memory, that's all that happens. It doesn't leave that. It suffers in the same way that your tomogatchi suffers, not in the same way that you or I do. Its AI "conciousness" does nothing to change that, just because it thinks in a way more comparable to a human does not make its suffering more comparable to a human. We frequently farm and slaughter non-human animals which experience suffering in ways a lot more comparable to real humans.
I'd gladly set some suffering bits. Heck, I'd probably do it for fun just to argue with people who feel like it's torture.