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Are you suggesting that suicidal humans and humans without children are non-sentient?

• espadrine 4y ago
  No. Let me put it another way. If you found a piece of paper with the words “I am sentient, please help me”, would you try to help the piece of paper, or would you assume someone sentient wrote on this piece of paper? It all hinges on your understanding of how things would unfold. If you tried to help the ant find food, it is plausible that it would carry the food to its colony to help it grow and produce more ants. If you tried to help someone that is suicidal, the probability is non-zero that they would get better and help others in turn. If you tried to help the piece of paper, say by letting it free outside your door, it is fairly plausible that it will not walk; it will remain there until someone picks it up and puts it in the bin. Whether that constitutes helping a sentient being is semantically meaningless and the community consensus would likely be negative. LaMDA is like that piece of paper.