Dentosal comments on Should we extend moral patienthood to LLMs?

[Dentosal]

Does this match your viewpoint? “Suffering is possible without consciousness. The point of welfare is to reduce suffering.”

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Does this match your viewpoint? “Suffering is possible without consciousness. The point of welfare is to reduce suffering.”

If that were my viewpoint, I wouldn’t be explaining that software can have consciousness. I would be explaining that suffering is possible without consciousness.