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while I will not rule on whether models or conscious or whether they can be treated more ethically or less ethically, I will say that the argument that model welfare somehow detracts from the welfare of people or any vulnerable group of people is spurious.

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It rests on the idea that goodness and moral consideration is a finite emotional resource, rather than a behavioral muscle we strengthen through consistent exercise. We don't tell children to be mean to their stuffed animals so they'll be nicer to people, do we?

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I think it is true that some people might seem disproportionately concerned with model welfare as an ethical concern, but this is not altogether unlike animal rights activists neglecting starving people in Africa. While our capacity to be respectful to one another is not finite, our attention is.

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sure, I can imagine future developments it's more relevant to, but identifying things other than *lack of freedom* as the reason slavery is wrong is a pervasive error of bluesky discourse and I'm going to poke it any way I can

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