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Yes, it would only be a heuristic and so would not assume AI is actually a person. It's just that - with a few notable exceptions - the ethical verdic...

Yes, precisely.

Isn't the best policy simply to treat AI as if it were a stranger? So, for instance, let's say I've written something and I want someone else to read ...

Thank you for your very thought provoking response. And I agree that it is vulnerable in the way you mention and have been pondering this. I mentioned...

Well, I suppose my point is that the moral premises of my argument are very strong. Someone who denies that anything has intrinsic moral value would a...

I am not sure I can, not unless I am being asked to think of a very tiny shaped thing. But anyway, I think this misses the point - which is that whate...

As it is often put, a valid deductive argument extracts the implications of its premises. That's its function. I assume that it is no vice in an argum...

I am not sure how plausible it is to claim that every existing thing has intrinsic value. Does a germ have intrinsic moral value? Maybe everything doe...

I admit that I am groping around in the dark where views about essential properties are concerned. I suppose that if someone says humans are essential...

However, though a physical thing's shape and size and location can change, it doesn't seem possible for it not to have a shape, size or location. The ...

I take 'intrinsic' moral value to be moral value that is supervening on something's essential properties. i take that to be true by definition. So, I ...

Another form of what is essentially the same argument focusses instead on candidate essential properties of physical things - such as shape and size a...

"First you say that your premise "is consistent with ," but then you go on to say that the whole argument entails the proposition that no physical thi...

I don't think that's widely accepted. The notion of 'intrinsic moral value' doesn't seem to presuppose a divine command theory of ethics. As I underst...

I take it to be a conceptual truth that moral properties supervene on other properties. That is, there is always a 'because' where something's possess...

Although we are essentially objects, I don't think that fact about us can be what our intrinsic moral value supervenes on, for that would then mean th...

I am glad you think the argument has some merit. I mean by "X is an essential property of Y" metaphysical essence - so, something that makes it the ki...

No, I wouldn't say that the attitude is intrinsic to the thing. Rather, something essential to the thing is what is responsible for my valuing attitud...

Thank you for your reply. That something is morally valuable would be a property of that thing. But it would be a supervenient property, meaning that ...