(May 27, 2019 at 11:11 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: If we have few qualms about killing a chimpanzee, it's unclear where the ethics to deny killing or sacrificing an intelligence that isn't human would come from.
You would see more qualms if the machine in question is an upright biped with an observable face. Anthromorphism does the rest.
We should build all machines to resemble a cockroach. Then no one would object to destroying it at our convenience.
