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by nonameiguess 1041 days ago
It doesn't matter if it's a "person" or not. Rights imply you have some desire to not be harmed and it's possible to harm you. How do you harm software? Shutting down whatever servers it happens to currently be running on won't do shit. Software is just data and code. As long as a processor and runtime environment still exists somewhere that can interpret and execute it, it isn't dead. It's only dormant. The basic way multiprocessing works, you're already having state saved off and the process shut down millions of times per second, then restored and restarted. Extending that gap from a millionth of a second to six centuries makes no material difference to the "experience" of the software, if it ever becomes capable of experiencing, any more than sleeping for 10 hours harms a human more than sleeping for 10 minutes.