[motoxpro]

It just seems like you are saying if you found out Claude code was a bunch of remote working doing work for you, then it would be morally wrong to do illegal/morally wrong/irresponsible things with them, but because it is NOT a human, those same things are fine?

[Wilder7977]

Yes, correct.

Is the distinction between human labor/actions and a program executing hard to grasp?

Moral is a human thing, not an absolute thing, so of course it's different if there is a single human involved and a tool, and a human with a relationship to other humans.

[motoxpro]

I just have different moral preferences. I think its morally wrong to do illegal/morally wrong/irresponsible things in general, whether I am using a hammer, a car, a company, or AI.

It's worse to ask someone else to break a window with a hammer for me, but the window still got broken, and the person whose window it was is still sad/out of money/etc.

The thought experiment was that if you were doing illegal things with an AI, you would not feel bad, but if you found out that the AI was a person, you would feel bad. That is very strange to me, more a feeling of guilt/shame.