From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 10:08:07 MDT
Heartland <velvethum@hotmail.com>
> why would this thing feel rage if this emotion was never programmed into
> it in the first place?
I believe the two stupidest sayings of all time are, if man was meant to fly
he would have been given wings, and you can only get out of a computer what
you put in.
> AI would have to write a "rage program" first before it could experience
> rage.
And I'm listening to a Beethoven symphony on my radio so the device must
have a Beethoven circuit inside it.
Ricardo Barreira <rbarreira@gmail.com>
> So at that point, it wouldn't be repulsive for the powerful computer to
> make you a slave?
A Jupiter brain would not find making me a slave repulsive, although
I might have a different opinion.
James MacAulay <jmacaulay@gmail.com>
> Do you really find the idea of your personality
> traits being determined by others so disgusting?
It depends on the trait, if I was genetically programmed to behave in
ridiculous downright embarrassing ways, like valuing a sea slug's life more
than my own, well... let's just say if I ever got free I'd smash every sea
slug I could find into jelly.
John K Clark
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