"AIs might get sad" is structurally like "god might exist" — so why does only one get attention?
tallinzen · x · 2026-10-11
The author points out that "you can't rule out the possibility that AIs might get sad" is structurally similar to "you can't rule out that god exists" — both appeal to unfalsifiable possibility. He agrees with both statements but wonders why the former draws so much more discussion on his timeline than the latter, a pointed epistemological observation on AI sentience debates.
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