[ExI] From Arms Race to Joint Venture

[William Flynn Wallace]

Firstly, the evolved machines that we call people are much more complex
than the designed machines that we currently make, and secondly they are
the product of natural (i.e. random) processes that actually encourage
differences, with the result that no two people are identical. Both of
those things will change. So while you say "we can never tell..", I'd
rather say "we can't currently tell...".    ben

Even with cloned people you can't stop crossover during mitosis, can you?
Never mind.  I can't think of any reason to have identical people anyway.
You could never create two people who were genetically identical and then
create identical environments for them, because you can do neither.

bill w

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:43 AM Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net> wrote:

>
> BillW wrote:
>
> I agreed with John Clark on this issue some time ago.  What I think we can
> never tell is whether some machine can feel the same way we do.  We have
> difficulty enough telling that between two people.  Give a machine the
> exact same input you give an identical machine and you will get identical
> results.  Not with people.
>
>
>
> Yes, and there's a couple of reasons for that. Firstly, the evolved
> machines that we call people are much more complex than the designed
> machines that we currently make, and secondly they are the product of
> natural (i.e. random) processes that actually encourage differences, with
> the result that no two people are identical. Both of those things will
> change. So while you say "we can never tell..", I'd rather say "we can't
> currently tell...".
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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