Could the wiki introduce version-control ideas like beta/development versions and release versions, where a change has to go uncontested for some tentative 'purgatory' period before it automatically becomes part of the release version? Particularly contentious pages might have a longer purgatory period. I know that there are fixed releases every so often, but they seem to be pretty infrequent, whereas this would be a continuing, fluid and automatic process on an article-by-article basis.
Alternatively, might there be a way to introduce reputation/karma to the wiki?
Gmail is wonderful in principle. I want to be able to use it as a permanent online repository for all the emails I've ever received. But I have 5+ years' worth of archives in Outlook Express.dbx and Mozilla folders that I want to upload. Until there's a means for me to do this, then it's of little use to me. Am I the only one who thinks this?
1.) Could machines ever be considered 'persons', complete with legal rights and deserving of the same treatment as people? Could it be just as cruel to send a highly-intelligent machine to do a dangerous, complex job as it would be to send a person?
2.) If humanity was to be replaced by supplanted (perhaps peacefully) by an intelligent, caring, communal robo sapiens, would this be a tragedy?
3.) Implications for personal identity, problem of other minds.
4.) Impact of cloning on our perception of free will, all humans being born equal.
Secondly, Robert Nozick (in Anarchy, State and Utopia) raised an interesting issue about the value of actually doing an act, rather than simply having the *experience* of doing that act. Imagine living most of your life in a VR simulation of your choosing, experiencing a rich panoply of scientific insights, sporting achievements or charitable good works. At what point and why do these (cease to) have any value? This is related to the question raised in The Matrix of whether Neo should take the red or blue pill.
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Alternatively, might there be a way to introduce reputation/karma to the wiki?
Gmail is wonderful in principle. I want to be able to use it as a permanent online repository for all the emails I've ever received. But I have 5+ years' worth of archives in Outlook Express .dbx and Mozilla folders that I want to upload. Until there's a means for me to do this, then it's of little use to me. Am I the only one who thinks this?
1.) Could machines ever be considered 'persons', complete with legal rights and deserving of the same treatment as people? Could it be just as cruel to send a highly-intelligent machine to do a dangerous, complex job as it would be to send a person?
2.) If humanity was to be replaced by supplanted (perhaps peacefully) by an intelligent, caring, communal robo sapiens, would this be a tragedy?
3.) Implications for personal identity, problem of other minds.
4.) Impact of cloning on our perception of free will, all humans being born equal.
Secondly, Robert Nozick (in Anarchy, State and Utopia ) raised an interesting issue about the value of actually doing an act, rather than simply having the *experience* of doing that act. Imagine living most of your life in a VR simulation of your choosing, experiencing a rich panoply of scientific insights, sporting achievements or charitable good works. At what point and why do these (cease to) have any value? This is related to the question raised in The Matrix of whether Neo should take the red or blue pill.
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Greg