nshepperd comments on Nonperson Predicates - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Irgy 15 January 2013 01:17:21PM 0 points [-]

Really? Where? I just reread it with that in mind and I still couldn't find it. The closest I came was that he once used the term "sentient simulation", which is at least technically broad enough to cover both. He does make a point there about sentience being something which may not exactly match our concept of a human, is that what you're referring to? He then goes on to talk about this concept (or, specifically, the method needed to avoid it) as a "nonperson predicate", again suggesting that what's important is whether it's like a human-like rather than anything more fundamental. I don't see how you could think "nonperson predicate" is covering both human and nonhuman intelligence equally.

Comment author: nshepperd 21 January 2013 10:08:09AM *  4 points [-]

"Person" seems to be used here as the philosophical term meaning something like "sentient entity with moral value". Personhood is not limited to human beings.

ETA: Also, wrt the AI itself, the directly next two articles in this sequence explicitly deal with the issue of making the AI itself nonsentient, as I'm surprised to find a comment from myself in 2011 pointing out. Did you really not read the surrounding articles?