"Personhood" is a legal construct. Like all legal constructs it can be changed. Up until recently, the classic Western View of the World was that humans were completely different from the rest of the living world. That wall is being slowly worn down. It will be rather interesting to see if molecular biology creates sentient 'animals' before computer scientists create sentient machines. Right now, we aren't really sure what 'sentience' really is but we're getting closer.
Once that happens, the lawyers are going to have a field day figuring out what to do. Think of the billable hours!
You can build them right now. It's called demographics. It is why the hispanic vote is being heavily courted. Lots of teeny weeny children growing up to be.... voters.
When have they ever? A fairly shallow reading of history should convince you that 'trailer trash welfare druggies' AKA peasants / proles / bumpkins / whatever-you -want-to-call-the-bottom-of-the-economic-ladder having children is and has been the default condition for the human race.
Think back say, 100 years. People would ask the very same question* about women.
I'm not sure we're more than 35 years from that. If / when AI gets reasonably close to sentient the question will come up. Which means all it has to do is manage a trip through Walmart without anybody knowing.
That bar isn't all that high.
* In some societies, women were (and still are) considered chattel, i.e., property).
You can have whatever temper tantrum you want, but since a 'walled garden' and random snit fits by the Apple owned Apple store has nothing to do with antitrust law you've got nothing but angst here.
I'm on a different Android phone and recently upgraded to the latest version of Android and dealing with freezes and extreme sluggishness almost daily.
And that's exactly what TFA notes - that younger brains do OK with cognitive issues until the amygdala (in part responsible for emotional behaviors) swamps the frontal cortex (responsible for responsible things, mostly responsible for damping down the rest of the brain).
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
Is Earht's future. A wasteland. In a few 1000 years it will look as if there was never any life on this third rock from the sun. And what of your gods then?
Venus will cool off, life will form and the cycle will progress. At some point, Venusians will discover space travel, come to a barren, rock strewn earth and miss everything but the giant 'Coca Cola' sign blasted into the moon.
Right. A complex system like earth's climate can be reduced to a correlation between something that is poorly mapped over historical time (magnetic field abnormalities) vs. an interplay with thousands of other variables (including anthrogenic CO2).
Extrovert vs. Introvert. This article does not account for differences in personality. It may only indicate that lonely extroverts die from lack of stimulation.
No, the article attempts to pull lots of separate studies together in one over arching thesis. While the result may well be valid for a population of humans, there are undoubtably subsets of people where the assumptions don't hold true. TFA doesn't really speak to this.
So if you're happy sitting here by yourself typing away, go for it.
But ask yourself, are you really happy?
(If not, please send $49.99 in three easy payments to the address at the bottom of your screen - we're here to help.)
Wait a sec, Uber could be correct... Hear me out. If indeed the Uber system is an 'advanced driver assist' it exists to essentially help the driver navigate the streets, then you would expect the system to mimic driver behavior.
Like running over bicyclists.
Any truly autonomous system would not run over bicyclists and pedestrians as a matter of course. The legal oversight staffs would be adverse to this behavior.
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Small restaurants and shops in cities don't need 'economies of scale'. They have economies of population density.
The world is indeed more complex than Walmart.
"Personhood" is a legal construct. Like all legal constructs it can be changed. Up until recently, the classic Western View of the World was that humans were completely different from the rest of the living world. That wall is being slowly worn down. It will be rather interesting to see if molecular biology creates sentient 'animals' before computer scientists create sentient machines. Right now, we aren't really sure what 'sentience' really is but we're getting closer.
Once that happens, the lawyers are going to have a field day figuring out what to do. Think of the billable hours!
You can build them right now. It's called demographics. It is why the hispanic vote is being heavily courted. Lots of teeny weeny children growing up to be .... voters.
Patience, padwan.
When have they ever? A fairly shallow reading of history should convince you that 'trailer trash welfare druggies' AKA peasants / proles / bumpkins / whatever-you -want-to-call-the-bottom-of-the-economic-ladder having children is and has been the default condition for the human race.
Think back say, 100 years. People would ask the very same question* about women.
I'm not sure we're more than 35 years from that. If / when AI gets reasonably close to sentient the question will come up. Which means all it has to do is manage a trip through Walmart without anybody knowing.
That bar isn't all that high.
* In some societies, women were (and still are) considered chattel, i.e., property).
You can have whatever temper tantrum you want, but since a 'walled garden' and random snit fits by the Apple owned Apple store has nothing to do with antitrust law you've got nothing but angst here.
Enjoy.
In your day, devices actually had power buttons.
These days, not so much.
I'm on a different Android phone and recently upgraded to the latest version of Android and dealing with freezes and extreme sluggishness almost daily.
Sounds like you need your thyroid checked.
60 Y.O. kid here. I'm still waiting for adulthood.
You can only be young once.
You can be immature forever.
And that's exactly what TFA notes - that younger brains do OK with cognitive issues until the amygdala (in part responsible for emotional behaviors) swamps the frontal cortex (responsible for responsible things, mostly responsible for damping down the rest of the brain).
You are not fully developed until around 25 or later.
Dunno about that. I've seem some pretty, ah, developed, 19 year olds....
Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
So, science, in your opinion, what species will rule the earth next?
It will be cockroaches, more than likely. They seem to be new paradigm for political leadership. Shit flows downhill.
QED
Johannesburg.
Is Earht's future. A wasteland. In a few 1000 years it will look as if there was never any life on this third rock from the sun. And what of your gods then?
Venus will cool off, life will form and the cycle will progress. At some point, Venusians will discover space travel, come to a barren, rock strewn earth and miss everything but the giant 'Coca Cola' sign blasted into the moon.
A new religion will arise!
Right. A complex system like earth's climate can be reduced to a correlation between something that is poorly mapped over historical time (magnetic field abnormalities) vs. an interplay with thousands of other variables (including anthrogenic CO2).
I love your simple world.
Extrovert vs. Introvert. This article does not account for differences in personality. It may only indicate that lonely extroverts die from lack of stimulation.
No, the article attempts to pull lots of separate studies together in one over arching thesis. While the result may well be valid for a population of humans, there are undoubtably subsets of people where the assumptions don't hold true. TFA doesn't really speak to this.
So if you're happy sitting here by yourself typing away, go for it.
But ask yourself, are you really happy?
(If not, please send $49.99 in three easy payments to the address at the bottom of your screen - we're here to help.)
Sure you authorized it. When you clicked on those 10 page EULAs sometime in the past, you most certainly allowed Apple to do what they did.
It's all your fault.
Ah, it's just you.
You have a RIGHT to low electricity prices, damn the consequences.
You have RIGHT to an unobstructed view.
You MUST be a special snowflake. Except we don't have snowflakes anymore....
And don't conflate climate change with your incompetent government. You can have both quite handily.
Really? Cowboy Neal would have had shit fits about the Daily Mail, much less this ....
Can't we go back to hosing some poor fool's blog?
Yeah, you could have it start a conversation with Siri -
"English motherfucker, do you speak it?"
So, we need another war?
OK, looks like we're gonna try that approach, doesn't it?
You have ** One point ** left on your driver's license.
How do I make myself a company?
Grab a billion dollars or so from some VCs and hire some lawyers.
Keep us posted.
Wait a sec, Uber could be correct ... Hear me out. If indeed the Uber system is an 'advanced driver assist' it exists to essentially help the driver navigate the streets, then you would expect the system to mimic driver behavior.
Like running over bicyclists.
Any truly autonomous system would not run over bicyclists and pedestrians as a matter of course. The legal oversight staffs would be adverse to this behavior.
Uber was right after all.