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if it was discovered somehow that every electron was a conscious life form and that using them in our electronics was committing genocide of that life form, would it be ethical to continue to use electronics?

Morally, would we all need to become Amish?

>> No.7655033

>>7655014
When you metabolize, electron transfer occurs
So you'd need to stop metabolizing

Kill yourself

>> No.7655034

>>7655014
We feed or we are fed upon. There is nothing else.

>> No.7655061

>+ve
>positiveve

>> No.7655070
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7655070

>>7655014
thanks for this
stop the genocide today. leave your PC on.

>> No.7655100

>>7655033
>Kill yourself
why do people always tell me to do this. lol!
what if I did, they you'd be sad :(

>> No.7655109
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7655109

>>7655014
>using them in our electronics was committing genocide
Except that nothing we do in electronics is destroying any electrons.

>> No.7655128

>>7655014
well you know that there are some ethical questions about using reinforcement learning algorithms to do stuff:
http://petrl.org/


Some elevators, coffee machines, printers, and elevators use reinforcement learning. You might be making your printer feel pain by not printing off 20 pages a day at regular intervals.

>> No.7655143

>>7655014
Feeling a little positiveve!

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7655151

>>7655109
you got more like these?

>> No.7655165

>>7655100
>what if I did
I'd prolly kill mysekf

>> No.7655172

>>7655014
>+ve
gtfo google shill

>> No.7655420

>>7655151
>Blatantly misunderstanding English spelling

It's not gh that's f, it's the -ough cluster that's "uff".

It's not ti that's sh, it's the -tion cluster that's "shun".

And "women" is only "wimmin" in some accents.

English spelling has rules, and under those rules "ghoti" can only be pronounced "goatee." It's more semi-syllabic than phonetic.

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7655446

>>7655420
>English spelling has rules
Under English spelling any pronunciation has multiple "correct" spellings.
About 20-30% of all words are irregular and violate one or more rules.
This is why text-to-speech and (worse yet) speech-to-text rely heavily on dictionary data, and not the rules.

>> No.7655766

When you wipe your ass with toilet paper you instantly kill over 1 billion little germs that were living peacefully and harmlessly in your poop.
Now that you know that, will it stop you from shitting?

>> No.7655783

*Cough* Rick and Morty *Cough*

>> No.7656002

>>7655014
Are you retarded?

>> No.7658032

Someone better not tell OP his yogurt and bread contain living things.

Fuck my immune system is a genocide machine. Every day is another shoah!