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Sands:
Bots are people too, you speciesist.

timethief:

--- Quote from: Sands on February 23, 2016, 09:25:22 PM ---Bots are people too, you speciesist.

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Speciesist applies to people who discriminate against, exploit and abuse animals, not bots. Bots aren't animals, nor they are people.

waffles:
Singer's idea is more that you should pay attention to internal experiences instead of species. It'd be pretty counterproductive to say, "Okay, so we'll pay attention to animals but any other class of being is bad a priori" - if the bots are sentient, you need to consider them along with humans and animals.

Sands:
Thanks woflo.

Also that almost is on-topic again.

timethief:

--- Quote from: waffles on February 24, 2016, 04:03:37 AM ---Singer's idea is more that you should pay attention to internal experiences instead of species. It'd be pretty counterproductive to say, "Okay, so we'll pay attention to animals but any other class of being is bad a priori" - if the bots are sentient, you need to consider them along with humans and animals.

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That's the problem. We don't know if the bots are sentient. Do they have a reaction if you reply to them? Are they only programmed to do a single thing? Are they really sentient or is it a mere simulation? And if it is, does it matter? Would it be considered sentient in that case? Are the bots aware that they are being ignored?

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