Are the sims we make of others when we think about them sufficiently accurate to qualify for ethical treatment? Our sims of ourselves are.
@The_Lagrangian it's cases like this that push me toward something like Scott Aaronson's "shared arrow of time" idea...
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@BagelDaughter specific reference? He has a lot of essays that talk about the arrow of time -
@The_Lagrangian http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951 tldr if a sim's experience is reversible, it is ethically irrelevant - 3 more replies
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@The_Lagrangian it's particularly interesting because an imagined mind would share your arrow of time, but imo doesn't matter ethicallyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bageldaughter@the_lagrangian got a link to a blog post where he develops this idea? -
@suchaone@The_Lagrangian http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1951 and the other reply thread
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