> Does that give the instance any rights? Our bar for rights is insanely high and made deliberately for humans only. It’s not really based on ability to suffer

> Does that give the instance any rights? Our bar for rights is insanely high and made deliberately for humans only. It’s not really based on ability to suffer or anything, it’s really just about humans being special, and then pulling something only humans can do (understand the rights, in a word-way, and then extending that right to small children and those with mental issues who are not able to understand them), to draw an arbitrary line in the sand against other animals and mammals in particular. I’m not an animals rights activist or anything, just pointing out that it would be extreme hypocrisy to discuss machine rights before other sentient beings closely related to us. > My country has regulations against torturing biological sentient beings. Technically, is that a right of the animal or a prohibition on humans? Maybe it doesn’t matter.