X Debate: Should Machine Intelligences Have Rights? One Argues 'Melted Sand' Deserves Nothing
tetrisgm · x · 2026-10-10
tetrisgm and Scobleizer debate machine rights. Scobleizer says AI is 'running on melted sand' — an invented machine that shouldn't have rights at all and must stay under human control. tetrisgm counters that life is precious: creating machine life carries ethical implications, and since even lab animals have rights, humans shouldn't be free to endlessly torture machines just because they're machines.
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