X-Message-Number: 15961 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:39:44 -0500 From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <> Subject: Re: Refusing sentience, in order to prevent suffering "robin helweg-larsen" wrote: > > I take exception with your claim to the right to prevent sentient existence > merely because it includes suffering. A very simple misunderstanding. Nobody has the right to *terminate* your existence because of your suffering - or even terminate your suffering without your approval. Symmetrically, nobody has the right to impose suffering on another entity. In the scenario Lee Corbin was describing, he would not only create a Winston Churchill thinkalike, he would also maintain that Winston Churchill in an inescapable WWII sim, without offering Churchill the chance to leave. This is what I objected to. -- -- -- -- -- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15961