Mine was free (i.e. paid for by my taxes). Sounds like you guys need a decent health care system...
On 4 January 2014 12:04, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/3/2014 12:09 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 4 January 2014 08:38, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:34 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 1/3/2014 1:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> Let's say that I built a computer system and showed you the >>> theoretical basis for a claim that it will be self-aware. Will you switch >>> it on? I am serious! >>> >>> >>> Why not? The real question is "do we have the right to switch it off?" >>> >>> >>> If you switch it off, it just continues in another branch of the >>> multiverse. So how are you going to decide whether it's better or worse to >>> switch it off? And if we give it political rights, what will be the >>> punishment for violating them by switching it off?...switching it back on? >>> >> >> To be fair, it should be whatever punishment is fair for knocking you >> out with chloroform and then placing you in a medically induced coma for >> some unspecified time period. >> >> Assuming you saved its state when you turned it off and restored it > afterwards (so it might lose short term memory which is exactly equivalent > to knocking someone out). > > Otherwise it's murder. > > > Last time that happened to me the "punishement" was that I had to pay > about $10,000 to the guy who did it. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
