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offline Anus_Presley on 2003-05-27 08:44 [#00716573]
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if they made a rrobot that had emotion, and could fearr
death, and felt pain, is it still ok to trreat it bad simply
because it is not human.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-05-27 08:44 [#00716574]
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that was a lame efforrt at trrying to sparrk some serrious
debate, becasue i am interrested. what makes us human?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2003-05-27 08:45 [#00716575]
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kind of depends whether you think it then can be seen as
being conscious.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2003-05-27 08:46 [#00716579]
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I guess that anything that can fear death could be
considered as conscious...


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-05-27 08:47 [#00716580]
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if i punch, it is a chemical rreaction that makes you feel
pain, and the same if i make fun of you, the upset you feel
is caused by chemical.

if this rrobot is made fun of it, its emotions arre caused
by electrrical signals like human neurrons in a sence, so is
it just as bad.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-05-27 08:48 [#00716581]
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if i punch a human*


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-05-27 08:56 [#00716586]
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My AI lecturer is really into this. If you're interested
read up all about it...

His ideas relating to "can a robot have a soul" are
here. It's worth mentioning he's a practicing
Roman Catholic himself...

He's one of the leaders in the field.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-05-27 08:59 [#00716593]
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o nice one


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-05-27 09:08 [#00716600]
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does it matter?

the fact that people are human doesn't stop us from treating
some of them badly does it?


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2003-05-27 09:10 [#00716603]
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thats not my point


 

offline Morgoth from Stella-town (Belgium) on 2003-05-27 09:19 [#00716613]
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some treat other humas bad, and cause them to feel pain. I
try to minimize my negative influence on my fellow human
beings. I'm not saying that I always succeed, but most
people try to.

We're all emotionally touched by others feeling pain, like
seeing images of people in Algeria after the earthquake.


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-05-27 09:28 [#00716622]
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agreed ... 'tis deviating from the "what makes us human".

sticking to topic then:

could go the zen/schopenhauer route, and say that
human/non-human distinction is arbitrary, as we are all
manifestations of the same underlying ONE.

or Heidegger, human/Dasein is a being for which its Being is
always an issue, its essence can not be explicated in a list
or axiomatic form.


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-05-27 09:29 [#00716623]
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in light of the ZEN option then .. the robot scnenario is
interesting, as we "create" robots in a non-biological way
... unless its considered that we give "birth" to their
consciousness or something.


 

offline uzim on 2003-05-27 09:51 [#00716636]
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of course! i'd even marry a robot, if (s)he would.
in another better life.

and then we'd be living happily, wandering around the world
into a wooden spaceship without children, and go to the
beach and throw magical pink rings on police seagulls to
make them sing, unless we'd have kernel panics. and then
we'd sleep together and have a threesome with a black shadow
ghost, and eat curry ice cream with straspberries.

now robots shouldn't be perfect imo, otherwise humans would
get jealous (that's what happens in chobits so far)...


 

offline uzim on 2003-05-27 09:54 [#00716638]
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maybe we're just biological robots, that wouldn't bother me
nor suprise me.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2003-05-27 10:21 [#00716650]
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being a biological robot will bother you eventually, believe
me.

eventually, a human can realize that while an animal, or
human, or robot may recover from the pain inflicted, the
choice to inflict pain is a human's own poison.

that is to say, what's important is not the robot
registering pain, but our self reflection on the motivation
to inflict pain.


 

offline uzim on 2003-05-27 10:35 [#00716659]
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i don't get your point....

bah, i barely get anything anyway.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2003-05-27 10:39 [#00716662]
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i know there is some type of difference, but i am too lazy
to explain it.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2003-05-27 11:08 [#00716683]
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"I guess that anything that can fear death could be
considered as conscious... "


no, that would be realizing that one day we will
die, not just fearing it.

Yeah, I'm here because of my thumb. We owe everything to
our thumbs, bow down to them. I think what makes something
human is realizing and taking into account what will happen
TOMORROW for his/her actions, today. Being able to
realistically calculate cause & effect.

If a robot had AI, you could treat it all you want. There
is no right or wrong for treating a robot.

The difference being that you (As a human) have now placed a
human characteristic on a nonliving object.

By doing this, you will react and be effected by this
object, and let part of your emotion lose control to it.

Building AI into robots will not cause the robot harm, only
the human who allows himself/herself to be emotionally
attached to the object.



 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2003-05-27 18:58 [#00717258]
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no?


 

offline lichtswitch from playskull.com (United States) on 2003-05-27 19:05 [#00717267]
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ai
action ALIZTHINK 20 2 5 1 40


 

offline lichtswitch from playskull.com (United States) on 2003-05-27 19:06 [#00717268]
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(ai) (name) (action) (move) (basic ai type)


 

offline mimi on 2003-05-27 19:21 [#00717273]
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damn - i thought this was going to be about freeform.


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2003-05-27 19:39 [#00717291]
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...but if I kill her and then rape her dead body, does that
make me a bad person?


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2003-05-27 19:40 [#00717293]
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oops! posted in wrong topic... boy am I embarrassed.


 

offline od_step_cloak from Pleth (Australia) on 2003-05-27 20:13 [#00717323]
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I wouldn't treat a robot badly even if it didn't have a
conciousness.
i never bashed my toys, even.

i just never wanted to.


 


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