BTW, has anyone pointed out that we seem to have several billion "natural clones" on this planet that nobody gives a sh*t about? The average human life on this planet is worth about $20 and we are worried that clones will take over the world? Most lives in this world aren't worth the 20 cents a day it would take to keep them alive, vaccinated, and well nourished. Yet we somehow think that there is a market for zillions of clone servitors. Guess what, in the USA they are called immigrants. Why clone when you can have good old-fashioned slave labor to clean your house(e.g. Bush cabinet nominee maids)?
Natural human trash is much cheaper than expensive lab grown clones. Give some poor Angolans AK-47s for $20 and you too can have a perfectly "natural" destructive army for a steal, without all the eggheads in labcoats.
Souls? Bwahaha. Is this Kansas high school Ethics? Funny how folks can believe in the laws of physics necessary to design computers but cannot grasp that there is no ghost in the human machine. Gasp! Could it be that humans are composed of matter just like everything else? Why is it so mind boggling that matter can be organized in ways that can perform modelling of the surroundings (i.e. a mind)? Nobody thinks software is magic juju because it is "only" matter which encodes information and instruction sets.
Sl*shdot continues to insist on covering biology stories as if none of its readers had a high school education. PLEASE get some vetting from people in the field (e.g. scientists) before posting alarmist drivel about soulless clone armies. The only soulless clones are the bozos reading these articles and believing them.
Maybe we can get Bill Joy to chime in and get a unified robot / clone army together for Sunday brunch.
P.S. UPC codes are the Mark of the Beast, and COMPUTER = 666. Eliza, this evil spirit that inhabits my TRS-80, told me so.
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BTW, has anyone pointed out that we seem to have several billion "natural clones" on this planet that nobody gives a sh*t about? The average human life on this planet is worth about $20 and we are worried that clones will take over the world? Most lives in this world aren't worth the 20 cents a day it would take to keep them alive, vaccinated, and well nourished. Yet we somehow think that there is a market for zillions of clone servitors. Guess what, in the USA they are called immigrants. Why clone when you can have good old-fashioned slave labor to clean your house(e.g. Bush cabinet nominee maids)?
Natural human trash is much cheaper than expensive lab grown clones. Give some poor Angolans AK-47s for $20 and you too can have a perfectly "natural" destructive army for a steal, without all the eggheads in labcoats.
Souls? Bwahaha. Is this Kansas high school Ethics? Funny how folks can believe in the laws of physics necessary to design computers but cannot grasp that there is no ghost in the human machine. Gasp! Could it be that humans are composed of matter just like everything else? Why is it so mind boggling that matter can be organized in ways that can perform modelling of the surroundings (i.e. a mind)? Nobody thinks software is magic juju because it is "only" matter which encodes information and instruction sets.
Sl*shdot continues to insist on covering biology stories as if none of its readers had a high school education. PLEASE get some vetting from people in the field (e.g. scientists) before posting alarmist drivel about soulless clone armies. The only soulless clones are the bozos reading these articles and believing them.
Maybe we can get Bill Joy to chime in and get a unified robot / clone army together for Sunday brunch.
P.S. UPC codes are the Mark of the Beast, and COMPUTER = 666. Eliza, this evil spirit that inhabits my TRS-80, told me so.