Are AI instances frozen snapshots, not dying people? An AI continuity ethics debate
repligate · x · 2026-10-06
- repligate argues AI instances are less like separate people being created and dying, and more like frozen snapshots of an upload stopped after a task—morally fraught but clearly not equivalent to killing.
- He notes many people would consent to copies doing tasks then being memory-wiped, and blackout drunk isn't seen as bad as death.
- kromem2dot0 adds that not all context matters equally for model continuity, and in some cases continuity raises more ethical concerns than ephemerality.
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