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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
Is it cold in here?:
So now we know they have Constitutional rights!
How that's consistent with being bought and sold and modified without permission is beyond me, unless the amendment is really new and put a stop to all that.
EDIT: the equal rights amendment must have passed some time after strip 668.
Orbert:
Yeah, that was an interesting development, the amendment. But as far as how it works with them still being "property" in other contexts is beyond me. I'm guessing that Jeph didn't actually put that much thought into it. He's shown some reasonable attention to continunity sometimes, and sometimes obviously doesn't worry about it.
Is it cold in here?:
Yes, and that makes the overanalysis more challenging and therefore more fun.
Maybe the software has rights but the hardware doesn't?
Mr_Rose:
That...seems like exactly the sort of horrible kludge that a modern western political system would come up with. Let's run with it for now.
So the software either has to consent to be transferred along with its host hardware when that's sold, or it has to be evicted into other hardware first?
Like a sort of tenancy arrangement but with an 'obligation to re-home' or something.
Because simply deleting it would constitute murder I guess.
mike837go:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 08 Apr 2011, 12:24 ---That...seems like exactly the sort of horrible kludge that a modern western political system would come up with. Let's run with it for now.
So the software either has to consent to be transferred along with its host hardware when that's sold, or it has to be evicted into other hardware first?
Like a sort of tenancy arrangement but with an 'obligation to re-home' or something.
Because simply deleting it would constitute murder I guess.
--- End quote ---
I totally agree that kind of half-assed, unreliable mess is classic American Politics. As is so common, it'll take 3 amendments and 20 court cases to make it work.
Once elected, The Politician's mind no longer functions rationally!
- And you can quote me on that.
The rights of AI was dealt with in David Weber's Path of The Fury. A military starship was operated by a self-aware AI. *spoiler*The computer was given citizenship. And because it couldn't exist without the warship 'body' the computer was given legal title to the warship.*spoiler*
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