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History is full of very confident people denying the sentience of other humans simply by nature of gender, religion, skin color, age etc. Hell most people won't
by trash_goblin 4y ago
History is full of very confident people denying the sentience of other humans simply by nature of gender, religion, skin color, age etc. Hell most people won't even admit non-human animals are sentient.
- seanhunter 4y agoTrue, although LaMDA is neither a human nor a non-human animal, and it seems pretty clear that collectively we are far from sufficient understanding to evaluate what sentience might mean in such a context. Some of the standard biological tests for self-awareness (eg mirror test) clearly don't apply.