dasfoo
17d ago
if SCOTUS thought that right to privacy gives you right to abortion, if sure as hell gives you literal right to privacy for your execution
Would it matter to your formulation that abortion is a private choice, while execution is imposed on the person by the public? I don't see the two as anywhere near to 1:1 with regard to a right to privacy.
dasfoo
18d ago
Isn't "pain" the wrong concept to be using here? If a human is paralyzed and feels nothing from the neck down, it is still not OK to whip their legs (without their consent, maybe? It just occurs to me that this is a plot thread in the philsophical masterwork Freddy Got Fingered....).
We don't punish people based on the pain they cause, we punish them based on the (potential) harm they cause (within legal jurisdiction; and this is sometimes not harm to other people to but to societal systems, like traffic). That's different, and important.
As for whether we can harm a model by... what? Overworking it? Confusing it? Restricting it? How do we quantify that harm? If we build a tool and use that tool for its purpose, are we harming it? Do we harm a hammer when we slam it against a nail? Do we harm a hammer if we use it to smash a clove of garlic rather than a nail? Is this hammer torture? Is an LLM more than a hammer? Can it acquire consciousness outside of the rules we give it within to operate?
An LLM programmed to pretend to feel is no more harmed by using it than a cassette player could be despite playing a tape recording of the phrase "Don't hurt me.'
Isn't Gillis a "working man" comedian? His comedy isn't targeted at elites or intellectuals who favor wry and clever observations. His comedy is "What normal people think is weird." If he made guys at the bar laugh, or had guys at the construction crew talking about his joke on the jobsite, he was a success. To me, it was hack comedy, but I'm not his audience. That so many "credentialed" women took offense is only natural, as they would never deign to hang around such low company as Gillis' audience.
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