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It raises other, even more troubling questions IMO:

"What is the distribution of human consciousness?"

"How do the most conscious virtual models compare to the least conscious humans?"

"If the most conscious virtual models are more conscious than the least conscious humans... should the virtual models have more rights? Should the humans have fewer? A mix of both?"



Replace AI with chickens or cows in those questions and they become questions that have disturbed many of us for a long time already.




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