As computationalists, we agree that the human being represented by the one tape turing machine is feeling just as real pain as we are.
If so, then the future SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Automata, the name is shamelessly stolen from Stanislaw Lem) will fight for prohibition of all AI testing, thus bringing all progress to a grinding halt.
If so, then the future SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Automata, the name is shamelessly stolen from Stanislaw Lem) will fight for prohibition of all AI testing, thus bringing all progress to a grinding halt.