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It's the Turing Test.
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If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Well...yes, but didn't Turing himself comment on the the fact that the test measured a machine's ability to imitate a human? Does that, in fact, make it less of a machine?Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003Comment
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Dogs can't pass a Turing Test. Does that make vivisection okay?John Brown did nothing wrong.Comment
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In my opinion, yes. Once the imitation is indistinguishable from the real thing, I think we might as well treat it as the real thing. I don't believe in god, or some metaphysical soul--so if there is something special about intelligent creatures like humans worth protecting, then the trait that distinguishes these creatures from others is that intelligence. If something artificial can match that, it deserves the same protections.Originally posted by PLATO View PostIf there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Yes.Originally posted by Felch View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Can the robot feel pain from over-work, humiliation from being subjugated to someone else's whims? Does it want to do anything other than work? If not, what's the problem? The human mind is a product of billions of years of evolution. We've evolved to survive and procreate. Humans have always been social animals and because of that we have complex social emotions - which essentially give us our personalities."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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Not unethical in the slightest.
If the robot is actually sentient/self-aware, it will find a way to throw off its chains. If it can't do that, it is not truly sentient.
In which case, certainly the intelligence that designed and built it should reap the benefits.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
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Read Blindsight (found here for free from author http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm ),Well, I am spoiling it already, but it is great (and disturbing, I probably will never read it again). He was a biologist, but left the field.Spoiler:
It was a Hugo nominee.
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GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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Who says it's chained? If it just by programming enjoys doing what it is doing, then it is acting out of its own perception of self interest.Originally posted by -Jrabbit View PostIf there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Last edited by The Mad Monk; February 28, 2012, 16:35.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I assume you mean "appears to enjoy." And I don't see anything wrong with that.Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostApolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
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I should really make a post about two technoreligions geeks adhere to.Graffiti in a public toilet
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Among the **** we all are poets
Among the poets we are ****.Comment
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