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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 1K3 on December 21, 2006, 06:27:18 PM
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This may sound ridiculous but it might happen in the future if robot technology matures...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6200005.stm
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Get used to it. Silicons will prevail. We Carbons will be in zoos and museums.
Oh, maybe not in the next dozen lifetimes.
But soon enough. :eek:
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Originally posted by Halo
Silicons will prevail.
Already happened :D
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Originally posted by 2bighorn
Already happened :D
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/skilless/211264rke.jpg)
You got that right...
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A subject best left to the writers of sci-fi.
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Yep, just like rockets, electronic adding machines, death rays, and sub-marine boats.
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That's just one of those mad things the British come out with every now and then. Robo-healthcare indeed! :rofl Actually it seems to me the author must be a fan of Futurama. 'Civil rights for Benders'.
You have to remember that the brief for many of these reports is to 'think outside the box' or to come up with extreme ideas in order to generate debate. Quite successfully this time it seems.
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My ex-girlfriend is a partially silicon based life form. She also made demands.
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I've moved up to 35,893rd on the waiting list for a Stepford wife. When we can invest in a custom-made, perfectly matched, other(me)-centered, optimally aged and trained, programmed mate, why take a chance on a fickle, unpredictable, self-centered aging biological partner?
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If robots could have rights just based on them reproducing and having intelligence, then why wouldn't animals have rights?
The study claims to not predict the future, but rather look into the widest range or possibilities. Yet, they didn't consider that we already have intelligent life that reproduces and performs work for us. Animals.
The UK has some of the worst liberal nutjobs on the planet.
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So robots will never achieve sentience and be entitled to civil rights, ever?
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Originally posted by Chairboy
So robots will never achieve sentience and be entitled to civil rights, ever?
Will apes ever be entitled to civil rights? I wonder why these brilliant future thinkers never considered animals.
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Ah, didn't realize you thought apes were sapient.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Ah, didn't realize you thought apes were sapient.
didn't realise that you thought robots were.
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I can envision a UK world of the future, when cars have civil rights. They could no longer be bought, sold or owned. :lol
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Originally posted by ByeBye
didn't realise that you thought robots were.
Well, the article _is_ talking about some point in the future and not now, right? I'm assuming that, of course.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Ah, didn't realize you thought apes were sapient.
Sapient:
1. having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
Sentient:
1. having the power of perception by the senses; conscious.
2. characterized by sensation and consciousness.
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Man, all this eddykashun for only $14.95 a month. Lots cheaper than Oxford (are its grads Oxyforons?).
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Thanks, I get those two confused. Sentient is the word I should have used.
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If the robots are like replicants in the movie Blade Runner then they should have rights. The theme of that movie centered on the moral question of deactivating replicants after their "life span" was used up. I don't remember if they became unstable was the reasoning? The replicants were sentient beings and not emotionless robots. Not human but close enough by appearance. They could also think.
If the day comes there is something like that, it would be well to have given the matter some forethought. What science fiction is today may be reality 50 years from now. Who knows the future?
My thoughts are that man builds robots as a sort of slave to do repetitious menial labor to save time, do jobs we can't do, etc... Nothing wrong with that unless the machines can think, learn, make decisions and they look identical to us down to just above the molecular level. Then they need rights.
The whole situation can be avoided by not "creating" those kind of robots in the first place. We may not be the ones to create them in any event. I think it would open up a whole new can of worms to deal with. Apparently someone's thinking seriously about it in advance.
If the robots pay taxes, would it all go to the govt.? Is that why they need rights, so they can keep some of the money they earn? Would the robots be state owned to generate income? Who pays for their upkeep? Why do they need rights? Certainly the discussion of civil or human rights would be directed towards the idea the robots would be highly advanced entities (like replicants) and not something like a mechanical arm assembly line device. If it is the latter it sounds like a taxation scheme. If not, someone is thinking many years down the road.
Les
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What about an empty robotic shell where someone places his brain, and bit by bit, replaces that brain with an artificial substitute?
At what point is he not human anymore, and how do you discern that individual from any regular bot?
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You guys need to put down the blunt, get out of your mother's basement and go out and get some fresh air.