-Caveat Lector-
Imagine a robot like "Robot Head" in the Lexx TV series. Robot Head, we
are told, has only a tiny blob of human tissue left which is why it lusts
after the gorgeous Zev. Now imagine removing the blob of tissue after
downloading a lust file to the Robot Head machinery. What's the
difference, before and after?
POC
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, David Sutherland wrote:
> But we also need the possibility of cataclysm, so that,
> when situations seem hopeless, and beyond the power of any
> natural force to amend, we may still anticipate salvation
> from a messiah, a conquering hero, a deus ex machina, or
> some other agent with power to fracture the unsupportable
> and institute the unobtainable.
> --Stephen Jay Gould, Questioning the Millennium
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Deus ex machina is New Latin for "god from the machine"; it is
> a translation of the Greek theos ek mekhanes.
>
> Dave.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:21 AM
> Subject: [CTRL] The Godbot Conspiracy
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> > Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:29:44 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Party of Citizens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Subject: [AI-Arms-Race] GODBOT ... why not?
> >
> > Since God is omnipotent, He can speak to us through any aspect of His
> > creation, including the person of a man. So why not a robot? Some time in
> > this century, AI will advance so far that socially interacting robots will
> > surpass us in every measurable aspect of intelligence. Their theological
> > expressions will be so far superior to that of man that homo sapiens will
> > have a strange kind of variation on the Turing Test. Just as Christians
> > 2,000 years ago wondered how they could differentiate a super-special man
> > and God speaking through that man, humans will wonder if Godbot is not God
> > speaking through a robot. What kind of robotheology would it take to pass
> > that kind of Turing Test?
> >
> > Will Godbot pose a threat to national security? Don't you think DARPA
> > should create at least a way of differentiating a real Godbot from a bogus
> > Godbot?
> >
> > POC
> >
> >
> >
> > "The day may be 10-20 years from now when we will have a HAL...we are working on
> > it at Ames...it is not science fiction."
> > -Daniel Goldin, Chief NASA Administrator, 2001 AD on Discovery TV
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