On 2/23/2012 2:49 PM, Terren Suydam wrote:
As wild or counter-intuitive as it may be though, it really has no consequences to speak of in the ordinary, mundane living of life. To paraphrase Eliezer Yudkowsky, "it has to add up to normal". On the other hand, once AGIs start to appear, or we begin to merge more explicitly with machines, then the theories become more important. Perhaps then comp will be made illegal, so as to constrain freedoms given to machines. I could certainly see there being significant resistance to humans augmenting their brains with computers... maybe that would be illegal too, in the interest of control or keeping a level playing field. Is that what you mean?
There will be legal and ethical questions about how we and machines should treat one another. Just being conscious won't mean much though. As Jeremy Bentham said of animals, "It's not whether they can think, it's whether they can suffer."
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