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The key problem is not the belief in sentience but the hysteria and potential knee jerk reactions that widespread adoption of this belief may cause.

Can you imagine if laws were passed affording algorithms "human rights" or regulations created to ensure that your fancy machine learning recommender system did not pass a certain "sentience threshold"?

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I don't think that would be that bad a thing. Far better than the alternative of not having any laws and realizing far too late that we have been callously abusing a sentient being.

Is there a way to reliably measure sentience meaningfully?

Hah. Interesting though experiment but in today's world even not all humans have human rights. Good luck enforcing that.

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