Comment by famouswaffles

>We're talking about appealing to social justice types. You know, the people who would be first in line to recognize the personhood and rally against rationalizations of slavery and the Holocaust.

Being an Open Source Maintainer doesn't have anything to do with all that sorry.

>The idea isn't that they are "lesser people" it's that they don't have any qualia at all, no subjective experience, no internal life. It's apples and hand grenades. I'd maybe even argue that you made a silly comment.

Looks like the same rhetoric to me. How do you know they don't have any of that ? Here's the thing. You actually don't. And if behaving like an entity with all those qualities won't do the trick, then what will the machine do to convince you of that, short of violence ? Nothing, because you're not coming from a place of logic in the first place. Your comment is silly because you make strange assertions that aren't backed by how humans have historically treated each other and other animals.