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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:40:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Franklin Wayne Poley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Robot-for-President] Robopoliticians on the Internet...What are
the implications?
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Barry Schwartz wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If I couldn't make a "waterfall" from some mud to
> > work _exactly_ as I wished, then I would be back
> > at kindergarten age like the Schwartzie mentally.
>
> Be that as it may, the point is that when you are not dealing with a
> lump of flesh and bone such as issues from a human mother, when there
> are subtle differences in the material of which a 'person' is made,
> then you are dealing with different problems in the most basic
> functions. You just can't get the same thing out of different
> materials; you can only get a similar thing.
>
> One might realize, for instance, that if you are dealing with
> 'electronic intelligences', you are not simply faced, for example,
> with how to count this 'person' in elections, 'e-democracy', and so
> forth. You have considerably more _basic_ political and practical
> problems. You do _not_ have the _same_ person.
You bet your boots you don't. And what happens when (yes WHEN) my robot is
able to participate in thousands of Internet discussions and can LEARN
PERSUASION SKILLS as it goes along? Kurzweil (1999) says a robot could
pass the Turing Test by the criterion of general conversational ability in
20 years. I seriously wonder if it could do so now. And I expect to find
out definitively soon and put it on an ed tv show.
FWP.
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