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concept:cost-of-living-for-digital-mindsCost of Living for Digital Minds
The likely lower resource cost of sustaining digital minds compared to biological humans at equivalent welfare levels
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- Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
- Supports super-beneficiary status via cost-of-living dimension
- The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
- The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds
- Flagged parenthetically in the introduction as an open empirical question
- The scenario where digital mind production continues until wages equal marginal costs, driving wages to machine subsistence levels
- Expert forecast cited to establish urgency of the research question
- Mental or cognitive entities that may or may not depend on brains.