Reproductive Capacity of Digital Minds

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• 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 claimsclaim0.838
  Establishes the reproductive capacity dimension of super-beneficiary status
• Digital Mindsconcept0.805
  Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
• If rapidly reproducing digital minds have at least as strong a claim to universal basic income as biological humans, fiscal capacity would be quickly exhaustedclaim0.803
  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 hardwarehypothesis0.799
  Grounds the subjective speed dimension of super-beneficiary status
• Theory of Mind Capacityconcept0.789
  The cognitive ability to attribute mental states to self and others; used as a proxy domain for investigating consciousness in LLMs.
• Do digital minds already exist to a very limited extent?question0.775
  Flagged parenthetically in the introduction as an open empirical question
• Preference Engineering of Digital Mindsconcept0.770
  The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
• Multiple distinct quantitative and qualitative dimensions make it robust that digital minds will be super-beneficiaries at technological maturityclaim0.768
  The paper's central empirical-philosophical thesis synthesizing nine paths