AI moral status debate: does conceding machine suffering imply utilitarian math?
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-20
In a debate on the moral status of AI suffering, teortaxesTex argues that if non-human suffering is morally salient, it implies some metric commensurable with human salience for decision-making—precisely what utilitarian scalar math gestures at. His interlocutor accepts possible moral salience of non-human suffering but refuses transitivity of pairwise ethical decisions, calling it an axiom every moral actor has violated.
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