[ExI] Slavery in the Future
Stathis Papaioannou
stathisp at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 02:44:01 UTC 2008
On 20/04/2008, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > But what if you create an intelligent self-aware autonomous entity
> > that loves serving you?
>
> The fictional history of the Matrix is the Wachowski brothers' vision
> of what would happen. B166ER loved serving his master. He just didn't
> want to die. It would be challenging to code a program that
> simultaneously loves to serve, or loves anything really, yet will still
> cheerfully die when no longer needed. A zen master might be able to
> transcend logic in this fashion, but a Turing machine?
I don't see the problem. You just have to program it so that, under
certain circumstances, dying is the preferred option.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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