On 22 Dec 2014, at 23:10, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Bruno Marchal wrote:
Would do accept to be tortured, here and now, with the promise of
1) 1000,000 $, 2) total amnesia of the torture?
These artificial situations are hard to evaluate. I would say,
however, that people are often prepared to put up with considerable
pain and inconvenience if they think the endpoint is of sufficient
importance. Amnesia of the pain and suffering is not usually a
relevant consideration.
Indeed, as big pain are also technically hard to forget and abstract
from. But in those afterllife consideration, and assuming the
computationalist hypothesis, those question makes theoretical sense,
and indeed can correspond to different theo-technological practices,
and with the math, we can interview machines on such questions, in the
different points of view (that machines can't avoid when looking
inward in the Gödelian classical sense).
Bruno
Bruce
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