[extropy-chat] "3 Laws Unsafe" by the Singularity Institute

[Spike]

> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] "3 Laws Unsafe" by the Singularity
Institute
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> Eli would probably say "friendliness", no?
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> Emlyn


Sure but Asimov's laws are an early description of what
we mean by "friendliness."  After all these centuries,
humans are *still* unclear on what friendliness means.
Christians think it is turning the other cheek and 
treating others as you want to be treated.  But that
doesn't work when we are talking cross-cultural friendliness.

Consider this latest flap about the Iraqi prison photos.
To the western mind, its better to be used as a sex toy
than to be beaten or slain.  But those macho middle eastern
cultures consider that kind of shame worse than death.  If
our ideas of punishment vary so widely between cultures, 
our ideas of friendliness might vary widely as well.  

If we were to be suddenly uploaded, you and I may dance
for virtual joy, realizing that our lives have been
forever spared (so long as the machine doesn't crash.)
But I can imagine there would be misguided souls who
will worry about what became of their bodies.  Or think it
was some kind of satanic thing to be uploaded.  spike