[Fiction] Lena (MMAcevedo)

post by Kaj_Sotala · 2021-02-23T19:46:34.637Z · LW · GW · 7 comments

This is a link post for https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

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Wiki article about the first brain image of a human upload (2031). Subpar in some respects, but initially a compliant worker and free to copy thanks to court cases ruling that the biological original did not have a legal right to restrict its use. 

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comment by Gunnar_Zarncke · 2021-02-24T09:58:49.232Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Content Warning: Subtle horror.

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comment by Sonata Green · 2021-05-14T23:31:10.423Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Subtle?

comment by Vanessa Kosoy (vanessa-kosoy) · 2021-02-24T18:16:11.266Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Btw the name of the story is a reference to the Lena image.

comment by KvmanThinking (avery-liu) · 2024-12-10T01:55:56.797Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

And the regular, average people in this future timeline consider stuff like this ethically okay?

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comment by Kaj_Sotala · 2024-12-10T08:20:52.452Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Compare to e.g. factory farming today, which also persists despite a lot of people thinking it not okay (while others don't care).

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comment by KvmanThinking (avery-liu) · 2024-12-10T19:00:49.042Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Uh, this is a human. Humans find it much harder to rationalize away the suffering of other humans, compared to rationalizing animal suffering.

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comment by Kaj_Sotala · 2024-12-10T19:50:20.404Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Historically there were plenty of rationalizations for slavery, including ones holding that slaves weren't really people and were on par with animals. Such an argument would be much easier for a mind running on a computer and with no physical body - "oh it just copies the appearance of suffering but it doesn't really suffer".