The Ethics of Treating Your Dog Well

In terms of like the machine learning programs or robots that we have now, I basically think of them as being comparable to thermostats. And in that context if we extrapolate further and to imagine machines whose subjective experience is getting closer to that of human beings then all of the ethical dimensions become more complicated. In that scenario you who are raising or you know training this machine that might eventually become an autonomous moral agent then yes you have to wrestle with the same questions that all parents do.

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