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Re:AI Is Not a Horse by karpierz on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:46PM (#34483081)
I don't think ethics involves consciousness either; you can't inspect other people's consciousness, so how can you put ethical weight on it?

You can assume that other people are conscious like you, and so you put ethical value on that. But then you're really putting ethical value on "being like me", irrespective of whether other people are or are not conscious.

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Re:AI Is Not a Horse by ben_w on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:53PM (#34483152)
> But then you're really putting ethical value on "being like me", irrespective of whether other people are or are not conscious.

I can't find flaw with that, but I wish it were not so. I want it to be about consciousness being special rather than brain structure chauvinism.

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