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Why not? Humans are, after all, just large quantum state vectors, numbers like any other.


Because information and human beings exist in completely separate realms of reality and morality.


Everything is information. Humans are no less representable as a number than the subject of the average patent.


Humans are sentient and sapient, something that our current informational models are not (yet). If you create a homunculus trapped in a simulation, then we can talk about treating them differently.




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