OpenEuphoria

Re: Artificial What?

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com May 15, 2003
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On 14 May 2003, at 22:15, C. K. Lester wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Jason Dube <dubetyrant at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > -It wouldnt need to smell,taste or feel, all it
> > would do is push pixels and
> > process data.And thats enough
> > of a task I'll wager.
> 
> I hear that.
> 
> > Just program it to be motivated, give it states,
> > timers and a series of conditions that must be
> > satisfied.
> 
> All this motivation would have to be subconscious,
> obviously. But you must wonder, what if the program
> ever found out about its "states, timers and a series
> of conditions that must be satisfied." Couldn't it,
> then, go in and modify those? Look at what humans are
> trying to do... trying to modify our "life span"
> conditions, etc.

You are saying humans should not strive to get above the physical striving 
for sex, the "biological clock" to have babies, the desire for other pleasures 
from food and drugs?

> In the digital arena, it would be much easier to break
> into immorality.

But if you preplan it's life and bind it into your idea of how to do things,
you've
made a slave, and that's immoral.

Kat