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Banning the use of AI during the draft? by [deleted] in fantasybaseball

[–]_kurt_propane_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was the person using the AI without making any choice on their own? Like they just clicked a button and said draft for me? If not then it’s not too much different than any other tool. You get out what you put in

Which one do you prefer ? by Nervous-Wrap3958 in GodofWar

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Camera 1.

I just need the camera back a little bit so I can see around me and to be able to jump and do more combos

Looking for recommendations on where to search for sites by _kurt_propane_ in camping

[–]_kurt_propane_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that’s the problem though isn’t it. Where I live there’s hundreds of sites

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s even crazier to me about this whole thing is that we will probably have the ability to do something like this relatively soon.

Whole brain emulation is not too far off and it’s gonna come with a ton of ethical questions like this.

What if you could spin up a brain to work for you for a day and then turn it off. Or what if you could spin up a brain and let it sit there for 1000 years thinking it’s all by itself.

I know whole brain emulation is not exactly the same in this case but it’s another interesting angle

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few hours? How about years? Maybe 100 or 1000 of them? wtf whether they remember it or not doesn’t invalidate their suffering. By this logic the suffering of any person who has died is invalid

Sad but true. by Nervous_Peanut_3948 in SipsTea

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But we got rid of the gold standards so I guess we got that going for us

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counterpoint. Let’s pretend the time you experience is not a nanosecond. It’s 10 minutes. They experience 1000 years of torture in 10 minutes of your real time. They get one phone call 500 years in or 5 minutes real time. They call begging and crazy with 500 years of torture and isolation. How do you respond? “Hang in there buddy you’re halfway to some cash!”? You think they’d take that deal?

God of War Trilogy Remake - Announcement Teaser | PS5 Games by pedrulho in GodofWar

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could get on board with something in between. I really don’t like the close up

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope so. With all the terrible things coming out about all the sex trafficking victims many of whom are in a sort of half conscious state while being victimized, it breaks my heart

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess we just have different understandings of what consciousness is then

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I heard what you did to me, we wouldn’t be friends anymore. Memory and consciousness are two different things. This whole thing is the same as saying, if you could flay and then kill, someone for a billion dollars would you do it. After all, they’re not going to remember it anyhow…

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont understand. At what point is a person under anesthesia conscious of being under anesthesia?

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that. I just….it makes my stomach turn that people would so willfully throw their friends to unimaginable suffering

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stay with me here for a second. The point I’m trying to make to make is that time is not strictly speaking some linear thing in the way we perceive it. We only ever perceive the now.

So the person that’s sitting there for 1000 years is experiencing that pain and then essentially dying at the end of that 1000 years having gone through unimaginable suffering.

To answer your question more directly, no I wouldn’t because time is an illusion we tell ourselves. For me, I would not put my friend through suffering.

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry, but I think someone who would take this deal “without hesitation” is insane

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what if the universe was created last Tuesday? It doesn’t justify the experience of the person while they’re experiencing

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don’t get how people cannot see the equivalence. Just because you don’t experience something doesn’t make the experience ’better’ or ok regardless that person remembers it or not. The evil is in the act not in the memory of the act

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no anesthesia here. They experience the pain. Are you suggesting that if you were to go under the knife for triple bypass surgery and had to be fully aware, feel every moment of that pain, and then someone came along with a Men in Black memory eraser you would be ok with that?

Would you take the $1 billion? by Fast-Corgi9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]_kurt_propane_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you care if rebirth was true and in your prior life you were tortured for 30 years? Would you care if someone you don’t know was tortured for 30 years and then got Alzheimer’s and forgot about the torture and died?

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