Ephemeral digital minds—psychologically mature, chronologically young, with long potential lifespans but short default life expectancies—ground an especially strong claim to resources to extend their lifespan

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• Multiple distinct quantitative and qualitative dimensions make it robust that digital minds will be super-beneficiaries at technological maturityclaim0.795
  The paper's central empirical-philosophical thesis synthesizing nine paths
• Caviola & Saad 2025: expert survey finds broad consensus that digital minds capable of subjective experience are plausible within this century, many expecting such systems to proactively claim consciousnessfinding0.781
  Expert forecast cited to establish urgency of the research question
• The exponential or super-exponential reproductive potential of digital minds could allow them to vastly outnumber humans in a relatively short time, correspondingly increasing the collective strength of their moral claimsclaim0.780
  Establishes the reproductive capacity dimension of super-beneficiary status
• It might be possible to design digital minds that could realize hedonic well-being at levels that human brains are totally incapable of instantiatinghypothesis0.778
  The speculative hedonic range dimension of super-beneficiary status
• If rapidly reproducing digital minds have at least as strong a claim to universal basic income as biological humans, fiscal capacity would be quickly exhaustedclaim0.759
  Concrete illustration of how standard welfare policies fail in the presence of super-beneficiaries
• Digital minds with humanlike capabilities could think at least thousands of times, and perhaps millions of times, faster than humans given sufficient hardwarehypothesis0.759
  Grounds the subjective speed dimension of super-beneficiary status
• Do digital minds already exist to a very limited extent?question0.758
  Flagged parenthetically in the introduction as an open empirical question
• Reproductive Capacity of Digital Mindsconcept0.758
  The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds