Comment by amanaplanacanal
22 days ago
This seems short sighted. The idea of when a "mechanical man" should be given the same rights as a man has been explored for a long time, as an echo of the past when people had the same debate about women and non-Europeans.
The ideas of FTL travel or existence of bearded people in the sky were also explored for a long time.
> as an echo of the past when people had the same debate about women and non-Europeans.
If you need help spotting the difference between skin color or gender variation and an imagined ability to imbue something we cannot even define (like consciousness) onto arbitrary substrates, I am not the right person for that.
If you think LLMs are like conscious humans and should be given the same rights, I don’t see anything wrong with it. You should realize, however, that this means the LLM industry would instantly be dead because you cannot really subject conscious humans to what LLMs are subjected to in order to be profitable.