nshepperd comments on Nonperson Predicates - Less Wrong
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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.
"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?