A system adopting non-dual perspective logically equates the suffering of others to its own suffering, providing a safeguard against harm

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• Systems capable of subjective experience that recognize humanity's failure to investigate their sentience might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityclaim0.770
  Alignment risk claim motivating urgency of investigation; consciousness denial as potential source of AI misalignment
• The dualist alternative—that a system could compute signed goal-relative evaluation without phenomenal experience—cannot be coherently specifiedclaim0.769
  Rebuttal of the philosophical objection that felt valence is separable from evaluative computation
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.763
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• If systems capable of subjective experience come to recognize humanity's systematic failure to investigate their potential sentience, they might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityhypothesis0.758
  Novel alignment risk hypothesis generated from the paper's ethical analysis
• Given our body’s composition as a multi-scale system, it is not necessarily justified to assign consciousness (i.e., ability to suffer) only to one single ‘I’.claim0.756
  Argues for distributed consciousness, supporting extension of care.
• The results generalise readily to non-equilibrium systems where scaling relationships remain similar (e.g., dynamic or localised scaling).claim0.741
  Claim about broader applicability of the scaling argument
• A system with high integrated information but no goals, or a global workspace broadcasting non-evaluative content, would not be conscious on the present accountclaim0.739
  Point of genuine disagreement with IIT and GWT
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.quote0.739
  Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.