Wouldn't we, as the designers of said robots, get to decide the basis for these rights? Like, if we made a robot to dive into burning buildings to rescue people, we could just set up its mind to enjoy doing that. Then one of its rights, if we're trying to make it "happy," would be to never prevent it from sacrificing its wellbeing to dive into burning buildings to rescue people.
If we made robots just like us, then they should have similar rights, but we don't really have any use for robots just like us... since we have us. If they're just like us, but more durable and with transferable consciousnesses, then they might not need the rights associated with preserving their bodies either.
I didn't finish it though, and now what I had built has been torn down. I wanted to test what would happen if you lived for a while in greater than one G of gravity.
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Wouldn't we, as the designers of said robots, get to decide the basis for these rights? Like, if we made a robot to dive into burning buildings to rescue people, we could just set up its mind to enjoy doing that. Then one of its rights, if we're trying to make it "happy," would be to never prevent it from sacrificing its wellbeing to dive into burning buildings to rescue people.
If we made robots just like us, then they should have similar rights, but we don't really have any use for robots just like us... since we have us. If they're just like us, but more durable and with transferable consciousnesses, then they might not need the rights associated with preserving their bodies either.
I didn't finish it though, and now what I had built has been torn down. I wanted to test what would happen if you lived for a while in greater than one G of gravity.