TL;DR I think increasing the fidelity of partial reconstructions of people is orthogonal to legality around the distribution of such reconstructions, so while your scenario describes an enhancement of fidelity, there would be no new legal implications. --- Scenario 1: Hyper-realistic Humanoid robots CMIIW, I would resummarise your question as ‘how do we prevent people from being cloned?‘ Answer: A person is not merely their appearance + personality; but also their place-in-the-world. For example, if you duplicated Chris Hemsworth but changed his name and popped him in the middle of London, what would happen? - It would likely be distinctly possible to tell the two Chris Hemsworths’ apart based on their continuous stream of existence and their interaction with the world - The current Chris Hemsworth would likely order the destruction of the duplicated Chris Hemsworth (maybe upload the duplicate’s memories to a databank) and I think most of society would agree with that. This is an extension of the legal problem of ‘how do we stop Bob from putting Alice’s pictures on his dorm room wall’ and the answer is generally ‘we don’t put in the effort because the harm to Alice is minimal and we have better things to do.‘
Scenario 2: Full-Drive Virtual Reality Simulations 1. Pragmatically: They would unlikely be able to replicate the Beverly hills experience by themselves—even as technology improves, its difficult for a single person to generate a world. There would likely be some corporation behind creating beverly-hills-like experiences, and everyone can go and sue that corporation. 1. Abstractly: Maybe this happens and you can pirate beverly hills off Piratebay. That’s not significantly different to what you can do today. 2. I can’t see how what you’re describing is significantly different to keeping a photo album, except technologically more impressive. I don’t need legal permission to take a photo of you in a public space. Perplexity AI gives: ``` In the United States, you generally do not need legal permission to take a photo of someone in a public place. This is protected under the First Amendment right to freedom of expression, which includes photography ``` 3. IMO a ‘right to one’s own memories and experiences’ would be the same as a right to one’s creative works.
TL;DR I think increasing the fidelity of partial reconstructions of people is orthogonal to legality around the distribution of such reconstructions, so while your scenario describes an enhancement of fidelity, there would be no new legal implications.
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Scenario 1: Hyper-realistic Humanoid robots
CMIIW, I would resummarise your question as ‘how do we prevent people from being cloned?‘
Answer: A person is not merely their appearance + personality; but also their place-in-the-world. For example, if you duplicated Chris Hemsworth but changed his name and popped him in the middle of London, what would happen?
- It would likely be distinctly possible to tell the two Chris Hemsworths’ apart based on their continuous stream of existence and their interaction with the world
- The current Chris Hemsworth would likely order the destruction of the duplicated Chris Hemsworth (maybe upload the duplicate’s memories to a databank) and I think most of society would agree with that.
This is an extension of the legal problem of ‘how do we stop Bob from putting Alice’s pictures on his dorm room wall’ and the answer is generally ‘we don’t put in the effort because the harm to Alice is minimal and we have better things to do.‘
Scenario 2: Full-Drive Virtual Reality Simulations
1. Pragmatically: They would unlikely be able to replicate the Beverly hills experience by themselves—even as technology improves, its difficult for a single person to generate a world. There would likely be some corporation behind creating beverly-hills-like experiences, and everyone can go and sue that corporation.
1. Abstractly: Maybe this happens and you can pirate beverly hills off Piratebay. That’s not significantly different to what you can do today.
2. I can’t see how what you’re describing is significantly different to keeping a photo album, except technologically more impressive. I don’t need legal permission to take a photo of you in a public space.
Perplexity AI gives:
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In the United States, you generally do not need legal permission to take a photo of someone in a public place. This is protected under the First Amendment right to freedom of expression, which includes photography
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3. IMO a ‘right to one’s own memories and experiences’ would be the same as a right to one’s creative works.