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'What do they look like?' and 'Where did they come from?' are even worse guides to moral relationships with forthcoming beings than they have always been between humans.

Argues that physical appearance and origin (evolved vs. engineered) are inadequate bases for moral concern

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

(2024) · Michael Levin

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For over a century, doctors believed people with dark skin did not feel pain the same way, resulting in systematic under-prescription of analgesics — a pattern that continues today with female patients
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Historical finding used as evidence that substrate-based moral exclusion has concrete harmful consequences

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
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The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future

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In evaluating creative or intellectual output, the question should be 'Does it elevate us?' rather than 'What made it?' — judging origin rather than quality emphasizes the worst parts of human nature.
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Normative claim about how to evaluate AI-generated content, using Deutsche Physik as cautionary analogy

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Universalist claim predicting cross-cultural generality.
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Central question motivating the paper.
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A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
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The prompt Alexander uses in visionary interviews to draw out authentic, universal visions from individuals
We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.claim0.757