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Robots and love
Is it cold in here?:
Is it possible to have love without attachment, and could an AnthroPC do it easily? Is it an option for the robot to say "rm -rf /proc/love/Marigold"? If so, would we consider that to really be love? ("It's love, Jim, but not as we know it.")
(But Momo has a registry, so it's probably impossible to remove all the traces and it would be like continuing to find clumps of cat hair for years after your cat died).
I had been wondering if AnthroPCs might gravitate to one of the less supernaturally-oriented religions, and there would be commercial advantages to installing, say, Confucianism on them.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Sep 2011, 21:04 ---I had been wondering if AnthroPCs might gravitate to one of the less supernaturally-oriented religions, and there would be commercial advantages to installing, say, Confucianism on them.
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Hmm... Well, I can see how ren (altruism and humanity), li (adherence to custom), zhong (both personal loyalty and respecting your place in the social order), and xiao (filial piety, presumably with the robot's owner as the target) might seem like good things to program into AnthroPCs, but they might take seriously and literally the (frequently disregarded) obligations Confucius laid on rulers/social superiors in turn. You wouldn't want your robot deciding that you had lost the Mandate Of Heaven, really you wouldn't.
DSL:
The obligations on those in power are disregarded when a belief system is subverted to political ends? Well, Confucianism has that much in common with everything else.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Akima on 13 Sep 2011, 01:08 ---You wouldn't want your robot deciding that you had lost the Mandate Of Heaven, really you wouldn't.
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I love it! "You've attained power, so clearly the powers that be are pleased with you, and since you were meant to have it, please continue to do as you wish", balanced with "We're not happy with what you've been doing, so the powers that be must be displeased with you as well. Please leave the keys to the palace with the attendants as you are 'escorted' out."
Who says China's never had democracy?!? It's a lot closer than this republic stuff we have in the US...
Is it cold in here?:
If an AnthroPC thinks its "owner" isn't living up to the obligations of authority, it's free to leave, unlike a peasant. But that's only the theory. They bond emotionally to their human companions. Can a robot get battered spouse syndrome? What if they're economically dependent? Momo almost couldn't get a job: what if she'd lived with a human who wasn't good to her the way Marigold has been?
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