On 03 Jan 2014, at 21:07, LizR wrote:
On 4 January 2014 08:34, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
On 1/3/2014 1:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Let's say that I built a computer system and showed you the
theoretical basis for a claim that it will be self-aware. Will you
switch it on? I am serious!
Why not? The real question is "do we have the right to switch it
off?"
If you switch it off, it just continues in another branch of the
multiverse. So how are you going to decide whether it's better or
worse to switch it off? And if we give it political rights, what
will be the punishment for violating them by switching it
off?...switching it back on?
Assuming there is a multiverse. (I seem to recall you have
reservations about the MWI?)
Note that with comp, arithmetic is a multidream. Does it define a
multiverse? Perhaps. perhaps a multi-multiverse. We simply don't know
yet.
Bruno
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