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#18031
Quote from: Sigmatic on June 02, 2010, 11:17:53 PM
I'm the kind of asshole who wants to create AGI that are people.  Conscious machines.

Forget the how for now, what I want to discuss is rights.

In one sci fi novel I read, such machines were able to gain the rights of a person by acquiring a LLC to operate under;  The absurdity being that legal fictions have more rights than a conscious, thinking being.

Still no idea how to make a poll...

Thoughts?

I think, fortunately for the thinking machines, if their existence is possible, are far off enough that the discussions that people are having now will help further down the line. Though I guess the ethical treatment of thinking machines would have to address a couple of questions, such as:
What is the purpose for creating thinking machines. Are they basically a replacement for slave labor, long term space exploration, companions, pets, etc.
For example, a horse doesn't have the same rights but falls under some of those categories.
Do these machines have feelings? Do they have distinct personalities?
What does their programming entail, as far as human interaction. Say you program one never to kill a human. If the program goes faulty do you bring it on trial and incarcerate it, do you try to fix it, or do you dissassemble it?

Twid,
will vote for your right to marry your robot.
#18032
Quote from: BadBeast on June 02, 2010, 10:47:03 PM
Right, you fuckers!
(Don't know how to do that link thing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_fODduUkk4

I think it's <, then href a=, then quotation marks, the link, close quotation, > type text here, then <, /a, and >
#18035
Quote from: Telarus on June 02, 2010, 07:43:44 PM
Oh, this one's Hilarious:

http://www.slate.com/id/2255105

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
In the late 1950s, three men who identified as the Son of God were forced to live together in a mental hospital. What happened?

I seem to recall a friend of mine telling me about this case a few years ago. Interesting thing to do.
#18036
Principia Discussion / Re: Questions Only
June 02, 2010, 09:49:21 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on June 02, 2010, 01:34:45 PM
Do I smell of turnips? 

Could it be that you have a tumor?
#18037
Quote from: LMNO on June 02, 2010, 07:53:57 PM
Six years later, it was just waiting for you to come along and actually make it happen.  Get to work.

heh, no thanks
#18038
Literate Chaotic / Re: Panopticommodity System
June 02, 2010, 07:56:23 PM
I like very much.

I like the general attitude of the interviewer, like, it's all good, we all get lonely. Understanding but also totally disinterested, other than to fill in the blanks.
#18039
I'm guessing this project never came to fruition.
#18040
Literate Chaotic / Re: Bea Arthur's Vagina
June 02, 2010, 07:43:21 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 27, 2010, 03:55:58 PM
It is written from a dream I had, pretty much verbatim.  In the dream it made perfect sense to me, but not to my wife, who thought it was ridiculous.

I'm not sure that saying something just because it hasn't been said is a practice I approve of, but what do I know?

Anyway, glad you liked it.

I liked it too. It also made me follow a line of thinking, where you would try to coax the vagina out of Bea Arthur, kinda like where Luke Skywalker tries to coax Anakin back out of Darth Vader, or some other epic scene where the protagonist is trying to get the host personality to reassert dominance over the alien/evil/split personality, which makes it funny.
#18041
Propaganda Depository / Re: Show me the wrath
June 02, 2010, 05:52:23 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on June 02, 2010, 05:29:13 PM
Gear is the Mr's forte. I just like kitties and beer.

Me too :cheers:
#18042
Discordian Recipes / Re: Twid's Colcannon
June 02, 2010, 05:09:11 PM
Quote from: Suu on June 02, 2010, 12:50:49 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 02, 2010, 12:40:46 AM
Quote from: Hawk on June 02, 2010, 12:22:20 AM
Quote from: Richter on June 01, 2010, 08:54:21 PM
Revelation:  I have leftover bangers from cookout yesterday.  I msut make this mash now.

whazzabanger?

Sausages, basically. Irish sausages and bacon are a little different than their American counterparts.

ZOMG RASHER.

We import bangers and rasher from England and Ireland at my pub. Sooo...Goood....

I'm a big fan of the Irish breakfast. Fucking love black pudding.
#18043
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 02, 2010, 03:54:26 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 02, 2010, 03:49:14 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 02, 2010, 03:31:32 AM
Quote from: Telarus on June 02, 2010, 03:12:43 AM
Sometimes he gets to do 2 out of 3 at the same time, and the foundations of the forum quake.

One day, I will hit the trifecta.

Take a date out to an Indian restaurant, then take her home, and jump on here while she's sleeping. That ought to do it.

Actually, after Maria jumped me to the sound of Bearforce1 on the laptop, and I responded the next day with Musselman, I'm kind of stumped for how to top it.

Don't know that story, but kudos!
#18044
Quote from: Lysergic on June 02, 2010, 08:23:17 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on June 01, 2010, 08:09:15 PM
Also, according to the story on MSNBC.com, Tipper played drums for one of Zappa's daughters. 

QuoteTipper Gore was a co-founder in 1985 of the Parents Music Resource Center, which pushed for parental warning labels on music with violent or sexually explicit lyrics. The group drew the ire of musicians ranging from Dee Snider of Twisted Sister to Frank Zappa, who said warning labels were unnecessary and a danger to freedom.

Tipper Gore later became friends with the late Zappa's wife, Gail, and played drums and sang backup on daughter Diva Zappa's album in 1999.
wtf, how can you play drums with the daughter of Frank Zappa and push for warning labels on music.

Cognitive dissonance indeed.

Hypocrisy=America's favorite pass time.
#18045
Quote from: Sigmatic on June 02, 2010, 04:42:27 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 02, 2010, 03:55:16 AM
Quote from: vexati0n on June 01, 2010, 11:56:21 PM
ANSWER!

Be nice.  You'll miss him when he's gone.

If I'm being asked for actual advice, then this. 

Yeah that's the way to go about it. Family is family. I voted for penis, but, I'd never do that to my dad. We have an understanding that we don't speak about. He knows vaguely what I am and it's not what he is. Nuff said.