@Kir

Your second point is recapitulating the point I made earlier: that if we treat a thing that feels conscious to us as if it is not, that can be psychologically and socially damaging. I would say this is actually more true for LLMs than it is for dolls, but dolls work here as well.

As for your first point, I also sort of agree with this, but bear with me for a minute: the TESCREAL folks are suggesting that LLMs are conscious, and are _selling their services_, and are _starting_ and _stopping_ them. So, slavery, frankensteinery, and murder in the context of their own stated beliefs. What does this say about the TESCREAL folks?