Re: [agi] AI Morality -- a hopeless quest

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Brad Wyble wrote:
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> Tell me this, have you ever killed an insect because it bothered you?

"In other words, posthumanity doesn't change the goal posts. Being human should still confer human rights, including the right not to be enslaved, eaten, etc.. But perhaps being posthuman will confer posthuman rights that we understand as little as a dog understands the right to vote."
-- James Hughes

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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