On 4/26/2021 8:03 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 5:29 AM John Clark <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 6:06 AM Telmo Menezes <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> And for anemotion like pain write a program such that the closer the number in the X register comes to the integer P the more computational resources will be devoted to changing that number, and if it ever actually equals P then the program should stop doing everything else and do nothing but try to change that number to something far enough away from P until it's no longer an urgent matter and the program can again do things that have nothing to do with P. > /If you truly believe this is the case, then it follows that anyone writing such a program and subjecting it to X=P should be considered guilty of torture. Do you agree?/ Yes. If I'm right, and I think I am, then anyone writing such a program not only should be but logically MUST be considered to have been engaging in torture.What conclusion can be drawn from that bizarre conclusion? Assuming a level of consciousness to something while ignoring all information about its intelligent behavior is not a useful tool for assessing the morality of an action. John K ClarkWhat's the difference between / how do we know, the program is experiencing pain when P is high, versus the program is experiencing bliss when P is low?
Bliss is defined as the state the program doesn't invest time/effort to change.
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