Would you care to speculate what the computer social level might be like? Would it have religion? What sort of government would it have? Who would control its army? Where would it put criminals? What system would it use to create and exchange goods and services? The more specifics you can furnish, the better.
Thanks, Platt On 15 Apr 2010 at 18:36, Horse wrote: > You're missing the point Platt - if they are intelligent and thus have > an intellectual level - they would have a social level. Pirsig's point > about ants and bees etc. isn't relevant. If computers ever did become > intelligent it would be through a different but analogous path. > > On 15/04/2010 17:21, [email protected] wrote: > > This is the notion that any old group constitutes a social level, a notion > > flatly denied by Pirsig: > > > > "One can also call ants and bees "social" insects, but for purposes of > > precision in the MOQ social patterns should be defined as human and > > subjective. Unlike cells and bees and ants they cannot be detected with > > an objective scientific instrument. For example there is no objective > > scientific instrument that can distinguish between a king and commoner, > > because the difference is social." (LC, Note 49) > > > > Regards, > > Platt > > > > > > On 15 Apr 2010 at 17:10, Horse wrote: > > > > > >> But they wouldn't be destroying their own social level - they'd be > >> destroying ours. If they were intelligent and significantly different to > >> us their social level would remain intact. Why would they worry? > >> > >> On 15/04/2010 16:35, Platt Holden wrote: > >> > >>> It would be just like intelligent computers to attain such a level of > >>> arrogance that they would believe they would be better off by eliminating > >>> the social level on which their existence depends. > >>> Reminds me of some intellectuals I know. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Platt > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Tudor Boloni<[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> would be morally correct to kill us if they feel > >>>> > >>>> a) they will be able to contribute more ideas and intellectual patterns > >>>> than > >>>> human can achieve > >>>> > >>>> and > >>>> > >>>> b) they determine humans are eating up too many resources and produce too > >>>> few intellectual patterns for the expense > >>>> > >>>> am i missing something? > >>>> > >>>> tudor Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
