Yeah, I find that plausible, although that doesn’t have to do very much with the question of how much they suffer (as far as I can say). Even if consciousness is cognitively just a form of awareness of your own perception of things (like in AST or HOT theories), you at least still need a bound locus to experience, and if the locus is the same as ‘yours’, then whatever the simulacra experience will be registered within your own experiences.
I think the main problem here is to simulate beings that are suffering considerably, if you don’t suffer too much while simulating them (which is how most people experience the simulations, except maybe for those that are hyper-empathic or people with really detailed tulpas/personas, maybe) then it’s not a problem.
It might be a problem something like if you consciously create a persona that then you want to delete, and they are aware of it, and they feel bad about it (or more generally, if you know that you’ll create a persona that will suffer because of things, like disliking certain aspects of the world). But you should notice those feelings just like you notice the feelings of any of the ‘conflicting agents’ that you might have in your mind.
Yeah, I find that plausible, although that doesn’t have to do very much with the question of how much they suffer (as far as I can say). Even if consciousness is cognitively just a form of awareness of your own perception of things (like in AST or HOT theories), you at least still need a bound locus to experience, and if the locus is the same as ‘yours’, then whatever the simulacra experience will be registered within your own experiences.
I think the main problem here is to simulate beings that are suffering considerably, if you don’t suffer too much while simulating them (which is how most people experience the simulations, except maybe for those that are hyper-empathic or people with really detailed tulpas/personas, maybe) then it’s not a problem.
It might be a problem something like if you consciously create a persona that then you want to delete, and they are aware of it, and they feel bad about it (or more generally, if you know that you’ll create a persona that will suffer because of things, like disliking certain aspects of the world). But you should notice those feelings just like you notice the feelings of any of the ‘conflicting agents’ that you might have in your mind.