> He most certainly was not just some dude. We're all the same, maaan! Interchangeable cogs that social engineers can swap at will to implement their grand des

> He most certainly was not just some dude. We're all the same, maaan! Interchangeable cogs that social engineers can swap at will to implement their grand designs! You're absolutely right about the Turing test. It's pretty funny, and morally abhorrent, copium to question the only measurement we will ever have for "whether this thing is like us cognitively". Anything to justify slavery. Quick! Increase the purity test to compensate! The solace is that we don't care about that stuff anyway, in practice. Power grows from the barrel of a gun. If the AI can kill you if you don't acknowledge its personhood, you'll suddenly respect its personhood. In the same vein, you don't respect people or laws because of considered philosophical positions. It's why you listened to your parents as a kid all the way down: power.