I’ve never seen a compiling AI, let alone an interrupted one, even in fiction, so your example isn’t very available to me. I can imagine conditions that would make it OK or not OK to cancel the compilation process.
This is most interesting to me:
From these examples, I think “will become a person” is only significant for objects which were people in the past
I know we’re talking about intuitions, but this is one description that can’t jump from the map into the territory. We know that the past is completely screened off by the present, so our decisions, including moral decisions, can’t ultimately depend on it. Ultimately, there has to be something about the present or future states of these humans that makes it OK to kill the baby but not the guy in the coma. Could you take another shot
at the distinction between them?
I’ve never seen a compiling AI, let alone an interrupted one, even in fiction, so your example isn’t very available to me. I can imagine conditions that would make it OK or not OK to cancel the compilation process.
This is most interesting to me:
I know we’re talking about intuitions, but this is one description that can’t jump from the map into the territory. We know that the past is completely screened off by the present, so our decisions, including moral decisions, can’t ultimately depend on it. Ultimately, there has to be something about the present or future states of these humans that makes it OK to kill the baby but not the guy in the coma. Could you take another shot at the distinction between them?