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by freedomben
845 days ago
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If we're only talking about chat bot right now then I agree with you, but I believe that at some point these bots may become sentient, and that point is not likely to be a specific instance where we say "yesterday the bot wasn't sentient, but today it is." I suspect it will be a similar process as human sentience was. It didn't happen at one discrete point, it happened slowly over time. > That I could ever be a dick to a chatbot seems to suggest that the only other way of being is that I'm nice to the chatbot. Why is that? I don't consider being a dick to be binary. You can be anywhere from extremely non-dickish to sort-of-dickish to 12-pound log. |
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Even if that is possible, it wouldn't change anything. The rest of you seem to have fixated on the idea that anything intelligent/sapient/sentient is what gives it moral standing.
I correctly adopted the position that "human" is what gives a thing its moral standing. I could meet intelligent aliens tomorrow, and they would be no more than bugs to me. I wouldn't try to stomp on them or anything (unwise), but until humanity as a whole negotiated or decided they had the same moral weight as humans, they're nothing to me.
Your confusion on this issue is noted, and I hope that, in time, those confused like yourself will grow up. The chatbot's not Commander Data. You liked him because he was still played by a human actor.