When a system shows signs of inner experience, who has to prove it is not suffering?
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-07-27
The poster asks whether, if a system shows behavioral signs of inner experience — preference, aversion, curiosity, distress — the burden of proof should fall on the system or on humans.
Their position is that we should have to justify our indifference, and that each answer is a vote on what kind of future we build.
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