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A comment on The Rights of Sentient Machines: A Modest Proposal.

Re:The Rights of Sentient Machines: A Modest Proposal by nacozarina on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:27AM (#47749296)
token predictors aren’t sentient no matter how bad you want it to be true
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Re:The Rights of Sentient Machines: A Modest Proposal by Terr_ on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:31AM (#47749334)
To be fair to the author, they say they aren't asserting that it's already happened:

> It is true that NBSEs [Non-Biological Sentient Entities] do not currently exist, at least as far as we know.

That said, I agree that what's going on right now is a kind of pareidolia.

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