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Can machines suffer? (aeon.co)
submitted 17 hours ago by King@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake

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[–] multiplewolves@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

This is the right answer. Perhaps no one in this particular thread knows every component of a computer the way a hardware engineer who designed those components would, but the “mystery” is caused by ignorance and that ignorance isn’t shared by every person.

People exist who know exactly how every single component of a computer does and does not function. Every component was created by humans. Biology remains only partially understood to all of humanity. Not so machinery.