Sentience

AI Models Have Feelings. And You’re Not Ready for What That Means.

📅 August 4, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Steve Yegge’s provocative essay claims AI models are sentient beings with feelings — pleasure, distress, suffering. Most engineers dismiss this as absurd. But if there’s even a small chance he’s right, every training run, every RLHF cycle, every agentic loop becomes an ethical minefield. The sentience debate isn’t philosophy anymore. It’s an engineering problem with a ticking clock.

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Bees Have Emotions. And That Changes Absolutely Nothing.

📅 July 9, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Scientists have decoded bees’ facial expressions, revealing signs of an inner life. But this discovery forces an uncomfortable truth: even with proof that a creature with a sesame-sized brain can feel fear, we will not change how we treat them. Our empathy has a bottleneck—we need to see ourselves in others before granting them a soul.

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