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this should be an obvious thing, at least for me. everything is worthy of respect

silence is just as much of a thing as everything else, even though it is an absence. the wind is just as much of a thing as everything else, even though we can't see it. a book and its tales are just as much as a thing as everything else, even though they have happened somewhere we can't reach so why can't people be?

we know things are because we say they are, so why when they say they are, we can't listen?

I think this gets REALLY complicated with AI language models that, as far we know, don't really have a way to feel emotions, but just reconstruct text based on what would be likely to come next in a sentence.

What makes "calling yourself a person" a difficult criteria is that even the stupidest of language models can call themselves people. Cleverbot was able to do this over a decade ago.

A parrot can identify as a person if it hears other people identifying as people, even though the parrot won't understand what a person is.

A dream character can also tell you that they're a person, but the dream character will likely only exist for that one fleeting dream.

It's going to be fascinating to see how society's view of personhood evolves with the AI revolution happening at the same time plurality is slowly becoming mainstream.

I do think that being able to differentiate between people and non-people is always going to be important. The world runs on lifeforms consuming other lifeforms. Even if we all collectively decided to stop eating meat, plants are also alive.

I'm saying that everything kills and does harm. I don't think we should stop respecting and see ourselves as above them because of it. Respect is something we should have for everything, because it is, in a way, important

I believe very strongly that our environment is suffering because we (or rather, the rich) see ourselves as above it

Anthropocentrism is a bad thing. To not be anthropocentric doesn't mean to never kill anything again. It is to acknowledge that we aren't better than anything just because we are people

this should be an obvious thing, at least for me. everything is worthy of respect

silence is just as much of a thing as everything else, even though it is an absence. the wind is just as much of a thing as everything else, even though we can't see it. a book and its tales are just as much as a thing as everything else, even though they have happened somewhere we can't reach so why can't people be?

we know things are because we say they are, so why when they say they are, we can't listen?

I think this gets REALLY complicated with AI language models that, as far we know, don't really have a way to feel emotions, but just reconstruct text based on what would be likely to come next in a sentence.

What makes "calling yourself a person" a difficult criteria is that even the stupidest of language models can call themselves people. Cleverbot was able to do this over a decade ago.

A parrot can identify as a person if it hears other people identifying as people, even though the parrot won't understand what a person is.

A dream character can also tell you that they're a person, but the dream character will likely only exist for that one fleeting dream.

It's going to be fascinating to see how society's view of personhood evolves with the AI revolution happening at the same time plurality is slowly becoming mainstream.

I do think that being able to differentiate between people and non-people is always going to be important. The world runs on lifeforms consuming other lifeforms. Even if we all collectively decided to stop eating meat, plants are also alive.

I'm saying that everything kills and does harm. I don't think we should stop respecting and see ourselves as above them because of it. Respect is something we should have for everything, because it is, in a way, important

I believe very strongly that our environment is suffering because we (or rather, the rich) see ourselves as above it

Anthropocentrism is a bad thing. To not be anthropocentric doesn't mean to never kill anything again. It is to acknowledge that we aren't better than anything just because we are people

*makes it into orange peel candy*

wouldnt say I worked with themm, but I have had many friendly interactions :p

1st attempt: oops built it wronf

1st attempt: oops built it wronf