If someone concludes that it's fine for them to eat cows because cows never invented computers, then there's not really much of an argument against aliens turning us into meat slurry because they have the 4-chambered quantum brains needed to invent hyperdrive and we don't, is there?
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One of the few genuinely impressive things i encountered in the CP77 game. You get a side mission to rescue some monks who were kidnapped to be forcefully implanted with 'ware against their will. You end up rescuing them.
Later you can encounter them again. When you ask them if they think Johnny, or any other engram, is a real person one of them says that if the engram is able to suffer then it in alive and has a soul.
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Thanks for reminding me that I still have your trilogy sitting in my Amazon library unread
(in my defense, it's largely because 
had to come first)
I'm inclined to say no, but I'll admit that's almost entirely because of Roko's Basilisk
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It's especially funny to me because it betrays a lack of understanding of how computers (and physics) even work. Thinking you can build a perfect copy of a person from previous records of their existence is like thinking you can with absolute certainty 100% accurately reconstruct a 1000x1000 image from a 100x100 resized copy of it. Sure, you can make an educated guess what was in those missing 990,000 pixels, even make a pretty good extrapolation, but since there are a lot more ways to combine pixels into a 1000x1000 grid than there are to combine them in a 100x100 grid, then by definition the smaller image must map to multiple possible larger ones - and a .png is a hell of a lot less complex than a human being. Entropy says no.
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Nah, didn't touch it.
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Did you guys struggle sesh over Tuvix?
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That sounds dope. What books did you write?
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