From: Martin Striz (mstriz@gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 16:35:51 MDT
On 5/15/06, Woody Long <ironanchorpress@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <m.l.vere@durham.ac.uk>
> > To: <sl4@sl4.org>
> > Date: 5/15/2006 7:34:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: ESSAY: Forward Moral Nihilism
> >
> > Quoting John K Clark <jonkc@att.net>:
> >
> >
> > > And in a way it's not
> > > even moral. I find the idea of a slave who is superior to me in every
> way
> > > imaginable but is nevertheless subservient to me repulsive; but that's
> just
> > > me, your mileage may vary.
>
> I find this imaginable too. But I would put it 'The idea of a machine who
> is superior to me in every way, but nevertheless my servant who does my
> bidding.' There is no slavery possible with an FAI because it is not real
> life. We are building artificial life (Alife), not synthetic life. We are
> building a silk flower not a real flower. THAT is the realm of biologists.
> Therefore there is no real life, and so there is NO issue of FAI slavery or
> FAI human rights.
> An FAI Alife is a super intelligent machine that does the
> bidding of its clients, as a legal piece of private property to be bought,
> sold, and destroyed as willed by its owners.
Do you believe that FAIs will be conscious?
-Martin
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jul 17 2013 - 04:00:56 MDT