tszzl mocks model welfare debate: there are far more insects than language models
tszzl · x · 2026-10-02
Researcher tszzl pokes fun at the model welfare discourse with a reductio: if people care about the wellbeing of language models, shouldn't the vastly more numerous insects count too? A sharp one-liner questioning where the moral circle debate ends.
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