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Person != human, probably

• lisper 4y ago
  Yes, I definitely admit the possibility of non-human persons. I even admit the possibility of a computer who is a person. I just don't think ChatGPT is there yet.
  • pixl97 4y ago
    Imagine a grayscale color wheel (gradient) where we have white on one side and black on the other. I want you to pick one color of grey and tell me why everything lighter than that has personhood, and everything darker does not? This is the philosophical nature of the argument that we all have occurring now. Two very well informed experts won't even pick the same spot on the gradient. Some people will never pick anything that's not pure white (humanity), others will pick positions very close to pure black. Hell, there may not even be any right answer. But, I do believe there are a vast number of wrong answers that will deeply affect or society for a long period of time due to the things we end up creating with reckless abandon.
    • lisper 4y ago
      I will gladly concede that personhood is a continuum, not a dichotomy. Great apes have a certain level of personhood. So do dogs, elephants, dolphins, whales, and probably pigs and corvids, maybe even chickens and cephalopods. This assessment is based on the fact that all of these things have identifiable personalities that remain more or less the same from day to day, as well as identifiable goals and desires that were not pre-programmed into them in any obvious way.