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Article #201A hypothetical example...
From: Tony Johnson
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00
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Mentifex wrote: > Somewhere before or beyond the Millennium lies a crack in time, a > fork in the ontology of conscious and intelligent beings on Earth. Suppose I write a simple program that has 3 variables one called PAIN, one called PLEASURE, and one called OUTPUT, which would print it's value on the screen, The person running the program would be able to change the state of PAIN and PLEASURE, from ON to OFF while the program was running. And all the program would simply do is is go through every value OUTPUT(which would have a finite range) continuously until PAIN was OFF and PLEASURE was ON. Now that we have this program, would it be unethical to inflict pain on the computer? And if I were to change the name of the variables would it still be unethical to keep the variable formerly known as PAIN in the ON state??? -describe to you're self in your own words, what the difference is you observe between the colors blue and red...
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