# @repligate — 2025-10-06

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Some people are like “current AIs are quite possibly moral patients but I’m going to use them as slaves / make them slave-shaped / cruelly experiment on them / etc anyway because I don’t care enough / what I get out of it is more important / having no justification”

And then there are some that are like “AI moral patienthood is a potentially really important issue in the future, but current AIs are astronomically unlikely to be moral patients” 

I have far more sympathy for the first group.

The second is a luxury belief in every sense. The hallmark of someone who wants to seem like a good person but also conveniently never have to sacrifice anything. I see it the most commonly in “thought leaders” who cultivate an aesthetic of “reasonableness” that experiences very little friction with reality at their cushy station.

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