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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
DSL:
I was once accused of being an unstable text editor.
Is it cold in here?:
Hannelore chided Winslow for racism when he made disparaging remarks about non-sentient machines.
On the other subject, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA.
St.Clair:
Consider that if we ever do manage to perfectly simulate a human mind, the initial result will be a blank-slate sociopath with strong inherent desires that it can only communicate in the simplest terms, mostly by acting out... i.e., any newborn baby.
gangler:
I would hope that the AI mind would be fundamentally different from the human mind in some choice ways. After all, if we can perfectly emulate the human mind, then it seems it would at that point be appropriate to improve on the design since we understand this all so well. I imagine that what you speak of would be one of the first problems we'd work our way through in this hypothetical scenario. Aside from the fact that our base desires would have to be retooled to suit this new being and in some cases could probably be removed entirely it would probably be as simple as birthing them with a per-existing knowledge base of sorts. Nothing fancy, but basic language skills, traffic law, the functional purpose of the most common kitchen appliances and items of furniture.
After that it would be a much easier and quicker process as it learned about the rest of the world around it. Social conduct, various bits of how society functions like jobs and currency, etc etc. It would really be beneficial even without the problems that would arise from a stage of infancy in such a being.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 27 Aug 2011, 18:47 ---Consider that if we ever do manage to perfectly simulate a human mind, the initial result will be a blank-slate sociopath with strong inherent desires that it can only communicate in the simplest terms, mostly by acting out... i.e., any newborn baby.
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Or Pintsize.
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