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		rtkwe on Oct 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can lab-grown brains become conscious? I think anything that tries to optimize a single metric just leads to silly conclusions. Like if we minimize pain including potential future pain killing everyone can be 'scored' as 'moral' since it cuts off all future pain.

alextheparrot on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

I mean, that's a more or less mainstream fictional trope - that the universe is better off without humans because they impose too much violence on it.

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