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WCDT: 2495-2499 (22-26 July, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Masterpiece:
Holograms are more useful for that purpose. Having something change constantly in your peripheral vision is a huge distraction and should be made illegal.
BMW has a hologram system in their cars. It is designed to be projected in a way that it seems infinitely far away from your car. That way, it is not in your periphery.
About bugs being sentient: If I remember correctly, bugs only react to stimuli and react to those through reflex. That in itself cannot be considered sentient (as in, the bug doesn't stop to think WHY it's doing things).
Lubricus:
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 23 Jul 2013, 02:55 ---I'm vaguely surprised that it's not been made illegal to drive with Glasses, given their potential for sudden distraction. Though I guess they could have a special driving app that only puts a small amount of essential information in the driver's FoV - it would be quite useful to not have to be constantly glancing at the speedo or the GPS.
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Legislation might not have caught up yet. Or it might be on hold due to some kind of lobbyism, maybe even AI lobbyism! :lol:
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Akima on 23 Jul 2013, 03:26 ---
--- Quote from: Loki on 23 Jul 2013, 02:06 --- :roll: As a matter of fact, no, I don't if I can avoid it.
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Nor do I. In my book, bugs are sentient; just not very.
Jeph seems to be all over the place on the "civil rights" of AI's depending on Rule Of Funny. May certainly does not seem to be treated the way Momo is, for example, and Agent Turing was quite ready to treat Pintsize simply as property.
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Hm. Difference in treatment seems to be roughly dependent on how much personal interaction one has with individual AIs on a regular basis. To be somewhat fair to Agent Turing and May's corporate domicile, most government agencies and large corporations treat regular humans with no greater compassion except where explicitly directed by law. And even then, not always.
As for bugs and sentience, I'm nearly convinced that the vast majority of insects aren't even a little bit sentient. Arthropods though… there's a reason spiders are scarier than flies, and it's not the two extra legs.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 23 Jul 2013, 03:28 ---Holograms are more useful for that purpose. Having something change constantly in your peripheral vision is a huge distraction and should be made illegal.
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Who says that Dale's glasses present stuff in his peripheral vision? Jeph hasn't offered any details, and it's perfectly possible that the information *is* presented focussed at infinity like an HUD.
--- Quote ---About bugs being sentient: If I remember correctly, bugs only react to stimuli and react to those through reflex. That in itself cannot be considered sentient (as in, the bug doesn't stop to think WHY it's doing things).
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That is a matter of definition. Sentience is not the same thing as intelligence. My dictionary defines sentience as the ability to feel or perceive, and that bugs certainly can do.
Spiders and insects are both arthropods. If you want to distinguish, spiders are arachnids.
Masterpiece:
Mmmh. I agree with you on all points. I was thinking of the Google Glasses when I wrote the thing about peripheral vision, because those definitely do operate in your periphery.
Considering the sentience VS intelligence thing, that is true according to the definition you use. But then what does "feel and perceive" mean? Does it mean it can accept stimuli from their environment? Because in that case, any server/pc should be sentient as well, because it gets stimuli and reacts to those. Sentience is a wonky concept to begin with.
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