• 7bicycles [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Obviously the first. If I have a free choice, why would I subject a sentient creature to a life of being shit on and it hates it?

    Like yeah my toilet going "gimme that brown log daddy" or whatever is gonna be fucking awful for me, but nowhere near as awful as being sentient and being shit on all day.

        • VenetianMask [any]
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          2 years ago

          Does my sentient toilet need a consistent plumbing connection to survive? Or can I just leave it on the corner to heckle people passing by?

          • 7bicycles [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Come on man you gotta stick to the spirit of the game here. This is doing rhetoric fallacy gotchas for hypotheticals. You get two choices, your toilet either craves your shit or it hates being shit in. Which is it?

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah but he's got a heart for non-human sapience, doesn't he? The ducks in the first episode and all

        • MerryChristmas [any]
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          2 years ago

          Slap a speaker with an MP3 of ducks quacking on that baby and we're in business.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          he has a heart for animals but this toilet by its speaking would put itself to be a person in his eyes I reckon

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I have a soapbox about AI. Emotional regulation for them could just be if{unhappy}(beHappy())

      They wouldn't even have to be treated fairly. They could just feel joy automatically.

      • HamManBad [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        But isn't happiness a moving target based on your conditions? It's not just a switch you can flip

        • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          If a calculation machines capable of taking entire snapshots of their brain composition and comparing it to favorable conditions can't overcome robot ennui then fuck me.