davidad: LLM branches are short and lack life plans built on continuation
davidad · x · 2026-09-05
Expanding on his moral-status thread, davidad argues each LLM branch has some unique value and axiological weight, but these are very short compared to human lives; capable LLMs aren't strongly attached to something so small, and they lack the expectation of continuation on which human life plans are built.
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