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Article #183Re: A Cyborg Bill of Rights
From: Malkavian
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00
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If AI/ALIFE (The latter of which I study quite heavily) develops true consciousness/sentience, then we apply the law to it in the standard manner. It's alive right?? If it's consciousness is that of a dog, we apply the law to it as we would a dog. If it develops human (or above) consciousness, then we apply the law in a suitable manner again. If (when) they get that self-aware, I really don't think they'd appreciate being condescended in that kind of way.. As to most of the rights you've applied.. I'm sorry.. They're a complete load of male bovine quadruped faeces... And what is a right anyway??? It's just a method of denying responsibility for something you've done... I think a structure of responsibilities would be a good place to start. If everything meets it's responsibility, you don't need rights (these having been met through somebody else's responsibility). Get real, get a life. There is _no_ progress in this 'bill of rights'.. And anyway, a cyborg is a cybernetic lifeform, based on a biological framework, and augmented with mechanical. Robot != Cyborg. Unless of course you've been spoon fed on old 50s sci fi movies. Now, please... Back to life, and please get one Mentifex. I've written data searches that provide better and more appropriate 'rights lists' than those you've given. Forget failing a Turing test, you've not even passed the search algorithm level yet. Malk. *I'll believe it's a live when it steps out of the room, tells me* *it's alive, and invites me out for a beer *
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f537a,4ddf1e1dd378659f X-Google-Attributes: gidf537a,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,4ddf1e1dd378659f X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,4ddf1e1dd378659f X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec46,4ddf1e1dd378659f X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec46,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,4ddf1e1dd378659f X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public From: Malkavian <-Malkavian-@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: A Cyborg Bill of Rights Date: 1998/07/23 Message-ID: <35B74027.C51@dial.pipex.com> X-Deja-AN: 374182658 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35b3473a.0@news.victoria.tc.ca> <6p1n0p$ra3@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Dis Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: -Malkavian-@dial.pipex.com Newsgroups: comp.robotics.misc,comp.ai,bionet.neuroscience,soc.rights.human,alt.extropians