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I found one of the latter points you raise in the talk especially thought provoking: simply worrying about whether we OWE moral consideration to conscious beings does not mean that we'll PAY it..

The same may happen with conscious AIs as has happened to humans and is still happening to non-human animals. If some lucrative practice becomes entrenched (for instance, enslaving and trading human beings; raising pigs in factory farms, etc) we usually look the other way. Moral reform takes generations, unfortunately.... Thanks !

JO

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