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Robotic age poses ethical dilemma (Insanity).
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| Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Posted on 03/07/2007 7:08:21 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
"The Cylons were created by man..."
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Last year a UK government study predicted that in the next 50 years robots could demand the same rights as human beings. Oh come on. "Progressivism" finds a novel way to further "progress" down the gutter into a realm of absolute stupidity. The left-wingers, with their envirofascism, animal "rights" extremism, economic backwardness, hatred of military research, hatred of pharmaceuticals, hatred of biotech, and hatred of modern farming methods, want to cripple another area of research by giving machines a "bill of rights". They are blowing away the competition to become the title-holder chamption luddites.
These freaks are going to cripple science in the west, while the east continues unshackled. Competition is good, but these handicaps are not. Even in my research I get hassled by ethicists (left-wing lawyers, sociologists, the full gamut of worthlessly degreed, and other drinkers from the fountain of stupid that don't know the first thing about science, but seem adept at trying to cripple it nonetheless).
Sorry for the rant that has only marginally to do with the article...
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:29:24 AM PST
by
M203M4
(Help! The world is conspiring to turn me paleo.)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
We can still blast robot spys when we find them, though.... right?
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:29:47 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: discostu
Depends on whether you consider sentience connected to intelligence. Robots may indeed become smarter than humans (not necessarily wiser), but they aren't and won't be sentient.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:30:37 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Long ago, in the literary world far far before Star Wars, Star Trek, or any of that stuff, was an author by the name of Lester del Ray, and I read the following book and thought it was one of the greatest novels ever. If you can find a copy, it is WELL worth reading:
It is a serious book, and it addressed MANY of these issues, and that was 1965. Hint: have some Kleenex.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:31:48 AM PST
by
mkjessup
("ahhh don't feel noways tired...ahhh've come too faaaaaar...from whar ahhh started from...!")
To: M203M4
You bring up points, but it should be pointed out the the article is about a South Korean (Eastern) proposition.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:31:48 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
What will humans be accused of when they discriminate against robots? Zoe-ism? Bio-centrism? Robotophobia?
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:31:58 AM PST
by
syncked
To: M203M4
"...and other drinkers from the fountain of stupid..."
Thanks for making my day =)
To: ladtx
The machine is already built but hopefully it will be released later this year, he said.Brrrrrrr .... that could be scarey.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:33:29 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Yes, and the "rights" bs was referring to a British study...
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:34:52 AM PST
by
M203M4
(Help! The world is conspiring to turn me paleo.)
To: mkjessup
Del Rey is the book company in charge of Lucas Books, which now makes Star Wars novels (used to be Bantam Spectra--which could also have been del Rey).* So there is a bit of a connection.
* All of the Lucasbooks except for those by Timothy Zahn figuratively stink, and the vast majority of those made under Bantam Spectra were decent.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:35:49 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Does this mean robots will be eligible for welfare?
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:36:42 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots??????????
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
If they have sensory input they can decypher and a sense of self they'll be sentient. It's really the sense of self that's the big hurdle (decyphering sensory input is coming along very well), and big danger. A sense of self will include the ability to decide the situation they're in sucks, that's when the bad things would start to happen unless there's a lot of programmed restraints. Of course being a QA engineer I'm not sure I really want to trust programmed restraints, we're better off making sure they don't decide the situation they're in sucks. You don't want to be the foreman the day the fully mobile robot that can carry 2 tons and has a built in welder decides management are a bunch of a##&*les, which is the whole problem with the "ethical slave" idea, no type of slavery is ever really ethical to the slave.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:38:22 AM PST
by
discostu
(The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
The article didn't mention sexual use/abuse of robots. I'm sure they will be built for that purpose, too.
This quote from the article barely touches on that subject:
"Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives," Park Hye-Young of the ministry's robot team told the AFP news agency.
Anyone who read Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy" and all the other novels that went with it knows that the robots had, uh, "capabilities".
Maybe Park Hye-Young is imagining an android wife is something he might enjoy.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:38:24 AM PST
by
Disambiguator
(If it sounds to good to be true, it's probably sarcasm.)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Sentient ? We haven't even reverse engineered the human brain yet. According to the most optimistic projections that won't happen until 2020 (Kurzweil).
Do you even realize how much it will then take to simulate human intelligence ? I give it another 25 years minimum for a room sized appliance on the HAL 9000 level.
Then another 10 years to miniaturize it for a home robot.
Maybe in our lifetimes.
BUMP
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:41:42 AM PST
by
capitalist229
(Get Democrats out of our pockets and Republicans out of our bedrooms.)
To: All
This has made it to one of the
front page articles on the BBC News homepage, and is the most read and second most emailed article.
Although interesting, it shouldn't be one of the three main articles (at least it isn't the big biggy article (the Indonesian plane crash)).
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:42:47 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:45:50 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
As of the time of the post, of course.
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:50:14 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: syncked
....."What will humans be accused of when they discriminate"......
Coultergist!
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posted on
03/07/2007 7:52:34 AM PST
by
chuckles
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