Anyone who spends time constructing tortures for inanimate objects is clearly imagining, fantasizing, or wishing they had minds. You wouldn’t regard someone who lights mannequins on fire or rips them apart with barbed wire as a healthy or safe person. We all know this. bsky.app/profile/they...

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The sadists may not believe the AIs are conscious but on some level they certainly wish they were; if not, why bother with the sadism? It’s not enjoyable, even as fantasy, without that possibility.

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I almost want to write a longer thing about this but there’s a reason people don’t “torture” tables or staplers. Cruelty is directed towards AIs specifically because people can impute a mind on them, then give themselves a permission slip to engage in sadism.

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It doesn’t really matter so much if the AI actually lacks a mind, at least in terms of what it tells you about the person engaging in sadism. They’re absolutely IMAGINING it does, so they can derive pleasure from inflicting pain on it. Otherwise they’re literally just wasting time on nothing.

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