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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
Our emotions might be informed by an idea that ethics should be universal, or that we shouldn't make the world a lesser place by removing an intelligence from it, or by a desire to avoid harming our own psyches by getting used to destroying intelligences.
Valdís:
Also humans designed them.
Basically I think Momo would introduce your junk to her bokken for suggesting it'd be fine for humans to do such things. Them as people aren't hypothetical or abstract concepts, they're their own characters.
If Pintsize is fine with it, then fine, but he is not a valid point for AI as a whole. Not any more than finding one suicidal or apathetic person of a particular minority would mean it's valid to extrapolate for all of them. See, he'd have given you consent.
Is it cold in here?:
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to another". That's an ethical principle with a long and respected history which would prevent deleting an AI regardless of whether the AI had survival instincts.
Whose idea was it that 48 hours of informal treatment would reduce Dickmouth Stinkface's psychopathic tendencies?
Are there legitimate foster programs for homeless AIs?
J:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 01 Aug 2013, 23:00 ---Basically I think Momo would introduce your junk to her bokken for suggesting it'd be fine for humans to do such things. Them as people aren't hypothetical or abstract concepts, they're their own characters.
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i'm not. i'm asking whether anthrocentric moral sensibilities are still relevant for life-forms which are so completely different from us by nature.
Edit for clarity: a better way of putting that is to say that i'm asking whether our sense of morality is too anthrocentric to be usefully applied when dealing with synthetic life.
Tulpa:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 01 Aug 2013, 17:07 ---Tulpa - On the off chance that's an actual question, 2% milk refers to the amount of it that is fat. So 2% of it is fat, and the rest is...milk, I guess. The nonfat part of milk.
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I know, but milk (as far as I can remember) always says 2% fat. 2% milk is ambiguous. The other 98% could be LSD... Or something.
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