Cost of Living for Digital Minds

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• Digital Mindsconcept0.790
  Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
• The cost of producing a given number of quality-adjusted life years for a humanlike digital mind will likely fall far below the equivalent cost for a biological humanclaim0.773
  Supports super-beneficiary status via cost-of-living dimension
• Preference Engineering of Digital Mindsconcept0.740
  The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
• Reproductive Capacity of Digital Mindsconcept0.717
  The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds
• Do digital minds already exist to a very limited extent?question0.714
  Flagged parenthetically in the introduction as an open empirical question
• Malthusian Population Dynamics for Digital Mindsconcept0.692
  The scenario where digital mind production continues until wages equal marginal costs, driving wages to machine subsistence levels
• 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 consciousnessfinding0.692
  Expert forecast cited to establish urgency of the research question
• mindsconcept0.688
  Mental or cognitive entities that may or may not depend on brains.