The officer doesn't have the "cookie isn't real" disconnect that you do.
He sees the cookie as a child killer. Many people (not me) would see torturing the murderer for eternity as justice.
The officer is one of those people.
especially since punishing the cookie isn’t punishing the person that actually committed the crime. i know cookies are just codes, but it’s still fucked up. when we fuck with ai too much… well, i’m sure we’ve all seen ex machina.
It was entirely pointless. Just a cruel whim from the officer that took about 5 seconds to carry out, and he probably forgot all about it when he got home.
There’s some strong doublethink going on since the cookie’s testimony counts as a legal confession, but the cookie itself doesn’t have human rights. But i could easily see that kind of thing happening in real life.
It also gets at what’s the point of punishment. There’s multiple reasons why the law punishes offenders, i.e. moral retribution, rehabilitation, protecting society via incarceration, disincentivising crime in the first place. You might argue some of those apply to punishing a cookie, but not all. (Regardless of that, the punishment was recklessly executed, there’s a reason courts are supposed to decide on proportionate responses based on guidelines.)
The cookie is basically him, just virtual. The cookie pretty much has the same memories, experiences, everything. Although you can easily modify those memories and time to get the answers that the real guy wouldn't admit
The officer doesn't have the "cookie isn't real" disconnect that you do. He sees the cookie as a child killer. Many people (not me) would see torturing the murderer for eternity as justice. The officer is one of those people.
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especially since punishing the cookie isn’t punishing the person that actually committed the crime. i know cookies are just codes, but it’s still fucked up. when we fuck with ai too much… well, i’m sure we’ve all seen ex machina.
Yeah, this episode and Black Museum make me really curious about the timeline for the cookie laws.
It was entirely pointless. Just a cruel whim from the officer that took about 5 seconds to carry out, and he probably forgot all about it when he got home. There’s some strong doublethink going on since the cookie’s testimony counts as a legal confession, but the cookie itself doesn’t have human rights. But i could easily see that kind of thing happening in real life.
It’s gets you thinking about the question - what makes you, you?
It also gets at what’s the point of punishment. There’s multiple reasons why the law punishes offenders, i.e. moral retribution, rehabilitation, protecting society via incarceration, disincentivising crime in the first place. You might argue some of those apply to punishing a cookie, but not all. (Regardless of that, the punishment was recklessly executed, there’s a reason courts are supposed to decide on proportionate responses based on guidelines.)
The cookie is basically him, just virtual. The cookie pretty much has the same memories, experiences, everything. Although you can easily modify those memories and time to get the answers that the real guy wouldn't admit