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Descartes and Kant thought that humans have a soul and animals don't, so that animals are mere automata. Kant still recommended against mistreating animals beca
by jaynetics 3y ago
Descartes and Kant thought that humans have a soul and animals don't, so that animals are mere automata. Kant still recommended against mistreating animals because that would have a desensitizing effect in our dealings with fellow humans. I guess this argument could be extended to ChatGPT.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoWouldn't it be amazingly ironic if all ML models used slightly more energy to analyse everyone's politeness resulting in pushing us past the tipping point of global warming. Resulting in the ultimate impoliteness of destroying all life in the Universe (sounds like a line from Hitchhiker's Guide) ... meaning Kant's Categorical Imperative should have been applied and no courtesies should have been used in querying ML models ...?