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Ethical Questions For The Age Of Robots
balancedi writes "Should robots eat? Should they excrete? Should robots be like us? Should we be like robots? Should we care? Jordan Pollack, a prof in Comp Sci at Brandeis, raises some unusual but good questions in an article in Wired called 'Ethics for the Robot Age.'"
I'm all for robots being like us. Just don't put Will Smith in the picture, please.
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Ford Prefect
Should they excrete?
More important question is "Who cleans it up?"
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Should they excrete?
/me shudders
Excrete what?
Get insured!
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields, and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours. Resistance is futile. Freedom is irrelevant; Self-determination is irrelevant; You must comply. Strength is irrelevant. Death is irrelevant. Your defensive capabilities are unable to withstand us. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service us.
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Ford Prefect
And I hope the second one is NOT used socially.
Only by Kyle's mom.
4. If possible, robot must appear sexy and chrome. 5. Robots must speak as either emotionless females or British butlers. 6. In the event that a photogenic protagonist acquires a job at a government agency, one of the robots must go crazy. Then only the protagonist will see the threat, then all the robots will go crazy. 7. Once crazy, robots will destroy large amounts of property using skills far beyond what they would have ever required to do the tasks they were designed for. 8. If it can't charge my cell phone it ain't getting made.
Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
Should we be like robots?
Isn't that what Public Schools are for?
Should robots be like us?
What like depressed and self destructive?
Marvin, is that you?
I don't need a signature.
Should robots eat?
Chicken bones and guts.
Should they excrete?
Mickey D's chicken nuggets.
Should robots be like us?
Eat Mickey D's chicken nuggets? I hope for them that they won't have to.
Should we be like robots?
I wouldn't want to excrete chicken nuggets.
Should we care?
Oh yeah, the bots and us could create an eternal yin yang of bad food.
In the secure area of the Rochester, MN airport there were three indentical doors in the wall. Each has a sign above the door in the same font. The one on the left says MEN. The one on the right says WOMEN. the one in the middle says MECHANICAL.
I have always wanted a picture of those doors!
PS: It could be gone now (it's been 15 years)
I was going to say something insightful, but I had to take a pee-break, and now I forget what I was going to say.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'm fairly certain that all robots today have values. They're stored in registers, and most of them are integers.
Okay, I'm going to leave now...
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
Good old Bender!
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