Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-30 Thread Brent Meeker 

Didn't even mention Brexit.

Brent


On 12/30/2016 3:47 PM, Kim Jones wrote:

I feel like the guy in the dressing gown feeling the weirdness

https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/2524792810877096/
Kim


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Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-30 Thread Brent Meeker 



On 12/30/2016 2:52 PM, Kim Jones wrote:


On 28 Dec 2016, at 6:17 pm, Brent Meeker > wrote:


Exactly so.  Once we can engineer robots to act with human like 
intelligence, questions about consciousness will be seen as either 
meaningless or "the wrong question".






Yes. This is precisely why we will first notice this effect in the 
burgeoning sexbot industry. A good simulation is (apparently) quite as 
good as the “real” thing. With sexbots, humans will embrace 
somnophilia and the ability to be aroused by a being that “may or may 
not be conscious” will become a pandemic


A better solution to overpopulation than nuclear war.

Brent

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Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-30 Thread Kim Jones 
I feel like the guy in the dressing gown feeling the weirdness

https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/2524792810877096/
 
Kim

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Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-30 Thread Kim Jones 

> On 28 Dec 2016, at 6:17 pm, Brent Meeker  wrote:
> 
> Exactly so.  Once we can engineer robots to act with human like intelligence, 
> questions about consciousness will be seen as either meaningless or "the 
> wrong question".  
> 
> 


Yes. This is precisely why we will first notice this effect in the burgeoning 
sexbot industry. A good simulation is (apparently) quite as good as the “real” 
thing. With sexbots, humans will embrace somnophilia and the ability to be 
aroused by a being that “may or may not be conscious” will become a pandemic


Kim 

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Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-30 Thread Kim Jones 

> On 30 Dec 2016, at 7:47 am, John Mikes  wrote:
> 
> KIM (and Brent, Telmo of course) 
> what should we call  " W E I R D "  ???

I think "low measure" is the most meaningful synonym for me

Kim

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R: Re: The Weirdening

2016-12-30 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List 






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KIM (and Brent, Telmo of course) what should we call  " W E I R D "  ???

 
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