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I'm not sure why that would be terrifying

Because humans have now become overloards of your very conscience.

Imagine that I am a communist revolutionary and I take control of the governmental system and I don't like rich people, but I decide well all these virtual brains and their wealth they should be put to work for the state, to pay back their misdeeds and robbing of the earth of resources in their past life.

Maybe I am a Mengele and decide I have a wealth of experimental subjects. Difference is now I can bend and break you mind but you cant die, unless I delete you.

I see all kinds of ways this can go wrong and given time all possibilities will happen.



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