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aeve890today at 12:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

>The copy was brought into existence without its consent

This may surprise you but EVERYONE is brought into existence without consent. At least the pre-copy state of the copy agreed to be copied.


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mrobtoday at 1:05 PM

It obviously doesn't surprise me because I specifically mentioned babies.

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Ar-Curunirtoday at 1:27 PM

Typically, real humans have some agency on their own existence.

A simulated human is entirely at the mercy of the simulator; it is essentially a slave. As a society, we have decided that slavery is illegal for real humans; what would distinguish simulated humans from that?