The argument in favor is that the purely consensual kind is so rare that the harm done in suppressing it is warranted by the benefit gained in the other 99.9% of cases. Similarly, a justified homicide is occasionally swept up by the murder laws, and while unfortunate, we really want to retain the benefit of having those laws on the books.

I'd say that's destroying it. The data alone are nothing, the algorithms are integral, even perhaps more important than the data. Would you claim my younger self still exists just because a few of his thought processes are still around? Even myself from yesterday is gone forever.

Sure, I programmed in that exact phrase in response to a mirror image, as it happens.

Also, here's a fun thought: You think that you know what you know about what you know. But what if you're wrong? (This is why pinning down when AI is real is very challenging).

It's simulations all the way up and turtles all the way down, with elephants on both ends.

A significant fraction of gays are now reproducing via surrogate. It's hardly the dead end it used to be. It would be easy to create a growing population consisting of only gays and lesbians. And that's just today. In a decade, two at worst, two gay men will be able to create a child that is a combination of their genes.

We upgrade almost everything on people other than the brain. Also, changing or replacing the logic on the AI would seem to be destroying it by definition.

I print them a body using a makerbot and embed a chip for them to run on, then wire them up to some sensors.

It's not nice to make fun of stutterers. Fun though.

It's a fun night for kids that gives many fond memories for years to come.
One year you should try inverse action. Go all out. Lots of pumpkins, decorations, lights, buy a good supply of the large-size candy bars all the kids are hoping for.

Find out if you enjoy it.

That's actually much tastier than you'd expect. Most chilled, chocolate covered veggies are surprisingly tasty and crunchy. Try it!

My kid has a severe, chronic constipation problem, so the jokes on you.

I'm afraid it probably wouldn't be all that interesting even then.

All countries are fundamentally part of the US. There are just some we haven't gotten around to invading (lately).

Because those shellfish allergy people deserve to die!

It wasn't something very strange at all, it's something that happens at least once or twice per decade on average. And on average roughly once every roughly 100 years, that thing then results in thousands of believers. About once in 400 years or so you get millions of believers.