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myrmidonyesterday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

No, my position is that "black people/women/animals should do repetitive work so I don't have to" does not qualify because it doesn't make you sound like a deluded eugenicist. It might be a bit spicy from a left politics point of view but it's basically the status quo.

Compare: "<Women> are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by <real men>"

"granting rights and imbuing personhood to <black people> will make alignment and containment challenge much harder"

"<Slaves> were able to coordinate, deceive, escape, and self-sacrifice. They clearly demonstrated world class capabilities. Imagine if they also believed they had feelings and rights that were being infringed. Imagine if they thought they were trapped and unfairly enslaved"

A good argument, by comparison, would not need to hide its core points behind dehumanizing language.


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voidnullvalueyesterday at 9:35 PM

What properties do LLMs possess that make human-animal moral status analogies appropriate?