On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > My chasing you with an ax would be no different than colon cancer or > heart disease chasing you. You would not project criminality on the cancer >
Yes exactly, I want any cancer in my body to die and I want the guy chasing me with a bloody ax to die, and I don't care one bit if either of them is a criminal or had bad genes or had a bad childhood, and I don't care if the cancer or the ax-man has free will or not whatever the hell that term is supposed to mean. > Once we understand that computers are never going to become conscious in > any non-trivial way, that frees us up to turn our efforts into making > outstanding digital servants to toil away forever for us. > That just ain't going to happen. Having a slave that is a thousand times smarter than you and can think a million times faster than you is not a stable situation, its like balancing a pencil on its point. > Logic 101 is reductionist theory. It's not reality. [...] Maybe' is not > yes and it is not not-yes. > It is my understanding that in a debate both parties try to advance logical reasons to support their position, but if we can't even agree that logical analysis is preferable to silliness and magical thinking then I fear there is nothing more to say. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
