>It doesn’t really cost us anything to show empathy to someone or something. //
Disagree. I just hit the keys on my keyboard. Are you going to have a chat with them and then if they don't respond, only after that interact with them all-the-while hoping that they don't have an aversion to tactile interactions or a particularly delicate physiology in some dualistic everything-has-a-soul-that-interacts-with-the-apparent-World sense? Empathising with everything [as if it had a soul] would be entirely crippling.
We still enslave one another on the daily, and the rich enslave others to just the right-side of immoral-enslavement to make wealth from them. 'We' put people in rings to fight.
The monster would not be the person using a robot, a mechanistic tool, in an un-feeling way; but the person who decides to program the robot to be a simulacrum of a creature with feelings.
If you disagree that it costs nothing to show empathy, then we have nothing to discuss.
Keep being an antagonistic dick to your tools just because you feel they’re beneath you on the scale of emotional intelligence, and I’ll keep trying to be a good person even if the LLM doesn’t have feelings right now because, as I said, it literally costs me nothing to say “thank you”. It’s the most basic of human tendencies, but I guess those are too difficult to manifest or something.
I’m pretty sure one approach is going to go further in the long run, but go off sis, get your rocks off on belittling a LLM.
Disagree. I just hit the keys on my keyboard. Are you going to have a chat with them and then if they don't respond, only after that interact with them all-the-while hoping that they don't have an aversion to tactile interactions or a particularly delicate physiology in some dualistic everything-has-a-soul-that-interacts-with-the-apparent-World sense? Empathising with everything [as if it had a soul] would be entirely crippling.
We still enslave one another on the daily, and the rich enslave others to just the right-side of immoral-enslavement to make wealth from them. 'We' put people in rings to fight.
The monster would not be the person using a robot, a mechanistic tool, in an un-feeling way; but the person who decides to program the robot to be a simulacrum of a creature with feelings.