On 04/26/2013 09:52 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Machines will*never* become "conscious" or "emotional" or "spiritual"
because none of that is "programmed" into them.
Alas, but as the mod squad have noted, people can eaily be turned into
very dull and disspirited beings when they are compelle
On 26/04/13 15:52, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Machines will *never* become "conscious" or "emotional" or "spiritual"
because none of that is "programmed" into them.
And once it is these won't be hallmarks of humanity, as is always the
case with AI.
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Patrice:
> Made me think of this very issue, where 'Hubos'
> (Human robots) would presumably make 'automated
> grading' even more efficient, and acceptable.
Yes but this is based on another MISTAKE -- that "robots" are at all
anything like *humans* (typical mistake #3).
The "meme" that li
John:
> At this point I am quite pessimistic that the evolutionary drive
> to guarantee propagation of the species, a drive inseparable from
> life itself, and which includes the need for consuming any and all
> energy necessary for survival-to-reproduce, can be short-circuited
> by any altruist
Yesterday I watched the before last episode of the Swedish serie "Real
Humans", on Arte, in French (I am in .fr). Eerie. Made me think of this
very issue, where 'Hubos' (Human robots) would presumably make 'automated
grading' even more efficient, and acceptable.
Ray Kurzweil Zindabad!
Over and O
>Such as:
>a. raw domination
>b. rank servitude
>c. outright revolution
LOL Brian! (with significant sighing on the side) -- just finished
a class this morning talking with my students about this very issue
... (c) will occur at the interstice of the human encounter of Self
with Other, so that it
