Two More Hanson Posts

I personally really liked Turings.

I chose 'sentient' before seeing the poll options. I was glad to see it there.

Unless you're trying to coin a cute new word, it's pretty much the obvious choice.

Here is a passage from The Theory of Moral Sentiments that might be of interest:

"Men are naturally led to ascribe to those mysterious beings, whatever they are, which happen, in any country, to be the objects of religious fear, all their own sentiments and passions. They have no other, they can conceive no other to ascribe to them. Those unknown intelligences which they imagine but see not, must necessarily be formed with some sort of resemblance to those intelligences of which they have experience."

Why would we want a name for those things? We include humans but not animals. We include uploaded AI copies of both humans and animals. It seems like a weird asymmetry.

Or did I miss something?

Or did I miss something?

Uploaded animals won't have rights ...unless someone changes them to make them sentient.