Your point (incl. your answer to slientbob) seems to be based on rather fundamental principles; implicitly you’d seem to suggest—I dare interpret a bit freely and wonder what you say:
If you upended your skills, so the AI you build becomes.… essentially a hamun—defined as being basically similar as a human but artificially built by you as biological AI instead of via usual procreation—one could end up tempted to say the same thing: Actually, asking about their phenomenal consciousness is the wrong thing.
Taking your “Human moral judgement seem easily explained as an evolutionary adaptation for cooperation and conflict resolution, and very poorly explained by perception of objective facts.” from your answer to silentbob, I have the impression you’d have to say: Yep, no particular certainty about having to take hamun’s as being moral patients.
Boils down to some strong sort of illusionism? Do you have, according to your premises, a way to ‘save’ our conviction of moral value of humans? Or might you actually try to?
Maybe I’m over-interpreting all this, but would be keen to see how you see it.
Your point (incl. your answer to slientbob) seems to be based on rather fundamental principles; implicitly you’d seem to suggest—I dare interpret a bit freely and wonder what you say:
If you upended your skills, so the AI you build becomes.… essentially a hamun—defined as being basically similar as a human but artificially built by you as biological AI instead of via usual procreation—one could end up tempted to say the same thing: Actually, asking about their phenomenal consciousness is the wrong thing.
Taking your “Human moral judgement seem easily explained as an evolutionary adaptation for cooperation and conflict resolution, and very poorly explained by perception of objective facts.” from your answer to silentbob, I have the impression you’d have to say: Yep, no particular certainty about having to take hamun’s as being moral patients.
Boils down to some strong sort of illusionism? Do you have, according to your premises, a way to ‘save’ our conviction of moral value of humans? Or might you actually try to?
Maybe I’m over-interpreting all this, but would be keen to see how you see it.