From: Woody Long (ironanchorpress@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 17:05:15 MDT
I purposely avoided the issue of consciousness. Seems to me a FAI can be
EITHER an ingenious classical syntactical simulation of intelligence, and
so a non-conscious classical FAI, or a semantically understanding
intelligence, and so a post-classical conscious FAI. Furthermore, since
there can be no Alife without machine consciousness, a classical FAI can
not be an Alife. However, a post-classical conscious FAI can be an Alife,
if the other necessary ingredients of Alife are included. For these
ingredients my system duplicates the human life theory of William James,
father of modern psychology.
> [Original Message]
> From: Martin Striz <mstriz@gmail.com>
> To: <sl4@sl4.org>
> Date: 5/15/2006 6:46:18 PM
> Subject: Re: ESSAY: Forward Moral Nihilism
>
> On 5/15/06, Woody Long <ironanchorpress@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: <m.l.vere@durham.ac.uk>
> > > To: <sl4@sl4.org>
> > > Date: 5/15/2006 7:34:51 AM
> > > Subject: Re: ESSAY: Forward Moral Nihilism
> > >
> > > Quoting John K Clark <jonkc@att.net>:
> > >
> > >
> > > > And in a way it's not
> > > > even moral. I find the idea of a slave who is superior to me in
every
> > way
> > > > imaginable but is nevertheless subservient to me repulsive; but
that's
> > just
> > > > me, your mileage may vary.
> >
> > I find this imaginable too. But I would put it 'The idea of a machine
who
> > is superior to me in every way, but nevertheless my servant who does my
> > bidding.' There is no slavery possible with an FAI because it is not
real
> > life. We are building artificial life (Alife), not synthetic life. We
are
> > building a silk flower not a real flower. THAT is the realm of
biologists.
> > Therefore there is no real life, and so there is NO issue of FAI
slavery or
> > FAI human rights.
>
> > An FAI Alife is a super intelligent machine that does the
> > bidding of its clients, as a legal piece of private property to be
bought,
> > sold, and destroyed as willed by its owners.
>
> Do you believe that FAIs will be conscious?
>
> -Martin
>
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