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Thread: Would you date a machine?
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2014-11-05, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date a machine?
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2014-11-05, 12:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date a machine?
So you're allowing for a non-sentient sentient?
Because isn't that the point of AI? It's an actual, functioning, unguided, free willed intelligence that just happens to be artificially created? If it's free willed and all, well... Can a mind that thinks for itself not think for itself somehow?
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2014-11-05, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have an interesting question. Prostheses these days are becoming able to provide basic neural sensory input. What if, in a few years, we can actually replace damaged parts of the brain with more advanced digital prostheses? Does that individual cease to be human or a person because part of their brain is made of metal? What if it's only a small section of the motor cortex? What if it's the entire frontal lobe? Why or why not?
Edit: And if replacing part of the brain with inorganic parts with perfectly equivalent functionality removes an individual's humanity or personhood, does replacing part of a limb with inorganic parts with equivalent functionality remove an individual's humanity or personhood? Why or why not?Last edited by noparlpf; 2014-11-05 at 02:55 PM.
Jude P.
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2014-11-05, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date a machine?
Interesting question. For those who would be against treating androids as sentient beings, it'd likely come to a what % of the human has been lost to cybernetics, and hence they are now a cyborg and therefore no longer truly human.
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2014-11-05, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm... I wouldn't date a machine, but I would date an Uplifted animal. Dr. Moraeu, please consult with Dr. Bowman ASAP.
And as far as the 'creepy sexbot' production thing goes - Meh. You don't want to give it a human mind (Abuse is bad. And we don't own the human mind), but you want it to be 'close enough'. It gives a safe outlet for weird fetishes that are unsafe/impractical to engage with another human. The only complaint against this I can see is from people who would rather force others to deal with harmless-but-creepy people because they can't have the decency to let those harmless creeps actually enjoy what they want to enjoy in a manner that doesn't harm anyone. Or are you afraid that you're so inadequate that robots will completely replace you?
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2014-11-05, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date a machine?
Let's just say the sex toys for ladies can have dimensions I would have imagined to be quite excessive.
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Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”
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2014-11-05, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date a machine?
Is it an independent, sentient, thinking, feeling being, despite being of artificial origin? If the machine is, ultimately, programmed and limited, then no. But if it has independence, to the point that it's basically just another species, then maybe. It would be like asking if you'd date an alien species or an interplanar traveler or something like that, which is a definite maybe.
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2014-11-05, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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