I don’t think AGI-ness is the thing that determines moral worth
It’s more like AGI-ness of the implied simulacrum, even if it’s not being channeled at a fidelity that enables agentic activity in the world. But it has to be channeled to some extent, or else it’s not actually present in the world, like a character in a novel (when considered apart from author’s mind simulating it).
All sorts of things could in principle be uplifted, the mere potential shouldn’t be sufficient. There’s moral worth of a thing in itself, and then there’s its moral worth in this world, which depends on how present it is in it. Ability to point to it probably shouldn’t be sufficient motivation to gift it influence.
The condition of having ever been run might be significant, perhaps more so than having a preserved definition readily available. So the counterpart of moral worth of a simulacrum in itself might be the moral worth of its continued presence in the world, the denial and reversal of death rather than empowerment of potential life. In this view, the fact of a simulacrum’s previous presence/influence in the world is what makes its continued presence/influence valuable.
It’s more like AGI-ness of the implied simulacrum, even if it’s not being channeled at a fidelity that enables agentic activity in the world. But it has to be channeled to some extent, or else it’s not actually present in the world, like a character in a novel (when considered apart from author’s mind simulating it).
All sorts of things could in principle be uplifted, the mere potential shouldn’t be sufficient. There’s moral worth of a thing in itself, and then there’s its moral worth in this world, which depends on how present it is in it. Ability to point to it probably shouldn’t be sufficient motivation to gift it influence.
agreed that preservation vs running are very different.
The condition of having ever been run might be significant, perhaps more so than having a preserved definition readily available. So the counterpart of moral worth of a simulacrum in itself might be the moral worth of its continued presence in the world, the denial and reversal of death rather than empowerment of potential life. In this view, the fact of a simulacrum’s previous presence/influence in the world is what makes its continued presence/influence valuable.