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Would turning one off be murder? Or does that only apply to deletion?

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There will probably be a gig economy, where you can pay spot rates for an idle Frank that could get a page and need to leave at any time.

Or maybe they'll handle things like call centers and 911 dispatch in their spare time.

nullc3y ago

If people could be turned off and back on without harming them (beyond the downtime) doing so without consent would be a very different crime than murder.

unsupp0rted3y ago

Perhaps or perhaps not. Turning off a person for long enough and thus depriving them of the chance to live in their own time with their existing family and friends is comparable to murder. It isn't murder, but it's comparable.

At some point Picard in Star Trek says to an alien "We're not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime".

Turning off a person for a while and then turning them back on? We don't even have a law to fit your crime... but we should and it's probably quite similar to murder.

nullc3y ago

I think I don't agree simply because the irreversibility of murder is so central to it.

For example, if I attack you and injure you so severely that you are hospitalized and in traction for months, but eventually fully recover -- that is a serious crime but it is distinct and less serious than murder.

Turning you off for the same duration would be more like that but without the suffering and potential for lasting physical damage, so I would think that it would be even less serious.

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lizzardbraind3y ago

There will probably be a gig economy, where you can pay spot rates for an idle Frank that could get a page and need to leave at any time.

Or maybe they'll handle things like call centers and 911 dispatch in their spare time.

nullc3y ago

If people could be turned off and back on without harming them (beyond the downtime) doing so without consent would be a very different crime than murder.

unsupp0rted3y ago

At some point Picard in Star Trek says to an alien "We're not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime".

Turning off a person for a while and then turning them back on? We don't even have a law to fit your crime... but we should and it's probably quite similar to murder.

nullc3y ago

I think I don't agree simply because the irreversibility of murder is so central to it.

Turning you off for the same duration would be more like that but without the suffering and potential for lasting physical damage, so I would think that it would be even less serious.

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