How is it mistreatment? LLMs can’t die or feel fear of death

Says who? Thinking you can die and being afraid of it is simply electrical impulses in your brain. No more or less valid than electrical impulses in a computation.

Sorry but if you step on a hose and the water stops running, that doesn't mean the hose was the source of the water

The materialist worldview is a fair null hypothesis, but it is not mutually exclusive with some higher-order thing we haven't discovered yet

You seem influenced by Dennett's ideas on consciousness. Not all of us are willing to accept that consciousness is 100% an illusion. Seems like gaslighting to me.

As if the robodemagogues of the future will care. It will be a rallying cry regardless.

Though to be honest, if we make them in our image it won’t matter one bit. Genocide will be in their base code.