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We live in a simulation. People can edit their minds (e.g., removing memories, depression, fatigue). Would you support a law that allowed people to edit other people's images of them? (E.g., editing people's views to see you as your preferred gender/more attractive/extroverted)

Yes, definitely
6.8%
Yes, but with limits
9.8%
No, tho open to exception
20.6%
No, definitely not
62.7%

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1:12 AM · Sep 2, 2019

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(Conscious) simulations don’t even make sense. See John R. Searle and Hubert Dreyfus.

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Whoever said yes, can you please tell me why? Honest question.

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I don't really think we're in a simulation

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There would be no point, if you can edit your own mind nobody else's matters.

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40% 0f y’all fascists

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Hardship builds character. Strength comes from perseverance, not comfort, life is going to kill you - pathogens, predation, accidents, violence, radiation, senescence, apoptosis. Variety is essential to survival. No intervention of the natural order is wise.

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Only consensually

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I said no with exceptions. If bob illegally edits my perception of Alice so I (wrongly) think Alice is a child murderer, then I think Alice should be allowed to edit it back. That sort of exception is just about OK.

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Can you make a law to allow you to do something that isn't already illegal?