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Robots and love
pwhodges:
My gripe with the concept of proving program correctness is that it seems to me that in real life the writing of a specification against which that correctness is to be proved is in fact the same problem as writing the program. So nothing is gained.
IYSWIM
Carl-E:
Cross posted for relevance.
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Is it cold in here?:
Is it ethical to include grief in the set of emotions an artificial life form can feel?
What if it's not a matter of choice, if the life form was created accidentally?
Is grief inevitable when love exists?
EDIT: we've never seen religious feelings or activity by an AnthroPC. Are they that different from us? Is it a different feeling when you know for a fact who your creators were and don't have to take it on faith? How is religion different for a being that doesn't have to confront mortality?
EDIT: what DO they do when their human companion dies? I can imagine Pintsize packing Marten's corpse with gunpowder and tossing it in a volcano. I can definitely see Momo performing a quiet dignified Shinto ritual at the graveside. Winslow would be stuck for a response.
Carl-E:
I think rather that Winslow would give one hell of a eulogy, filling all who heard it with a deeper respect and understanding of Hannelore, and at the same time, with an increased love for the lives they've been given.
He just seems that type.
Edit: Focking typos...
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 11 Sep 2011, 14:00 ---I think rather that Winslow would give one hell of a eulogy, filling all who heard it with a deeper respect and understanding of Hannelore, and at the same time, with an increased love for the lves they've been given.
He just seems that type.
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And it woud have typos because he tried to use an iPad to write it wth.
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