Our sense of ”is it okay to do this to this thing/being” is entirely based on pattern matching how similar we find that thing to ourselves with whatever criteri

Our sense of ”is it okay to do this to this thing/being” is entirely based on pattern matching how similar we find that thing to ourselves with whatever criteria we deem relevant at the time. You as a human being cannot know what the internal world of another being is beyond comparing that being to yourself. We can never know if AI’s can feel true pain, for we can never know if anyone else in this world can feel true pain besides yourself. You just assume that since other human’s brain is so similar to yours they do. That being said, the ’internal world’ of LLMs is so dissimilar to that of mammals that I’d rest easy.