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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Method of Madness:
Probably about two years, mostly thanks to the occasional time skips. Those time skips are also what make it hard to tell.
Is it cold in here?:
AnthroPCs own the hardware they inhabit.
There must be exceptions.
Kugai:
Happy Decicentenial.
Dale's proving to be a good guy in this. I hope he doesn't live to regret his choice in keeping May as his AI Buddette.
Carl-E:
It's only for another day. Although I'm sure May can appeal for an extension, and Dale can probably re-up for the program as well.
Should be interesting...
Oh, and as for the "anthrocentric" notion of morality - for some reason, the AIs we know from the QC world have developed along the lines of human thought and behaviour. They could have gone in different directions, but they may not have had any other models available for sentience. So it's quite understandable that any moral coding (and moral failings) they have would be along the lines of those we've developed over the last several thousand years or so.
Is it cold in here?:
They did turn out quite human-like, although Momo said the big AIs have a very different form of consciousness from humans.
If they'd been more different from humans, the ethical questions would have been harder.
The answers would probably have wound up similar -- enlightened self-interest alone would lead to legal protection of anything sentient.
I wonder who led the AI rights movement? Somehow I imagine the Dalai Lama getting it right from day one.
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