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The user in the LLM might be a moral patient too (a strange implication of the PSM and simulators).

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A LessWrong post argues that if an AI assistant is treated as having moral weight, the simulated user in a language model should be considered a moral patient too.

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“Thanks to Christopher Ackerman, Margot Stakenborg, Darion Cassel, Andy Han, and Ariana Azarbal for feedback and/or valuable discussions on these topics.”
LessWrong, 15 Oct 2026, 14:32.

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