<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eugen Leitl</b> <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I partly agree with both Russell and Eugen. Tools can be persons<br>> (manifestly, since we are persons and we were created from non-person<br>> matter by means of evolution), but they don't *necessarily* have to be
<br>> persons with any particular agenda, no matter how smart they are.<br><br>If my tools are persons with a particular agenda, what are you going<br>to do about it? What *can* you do about it, assuming you at all know
<br>what they've been up to?<br></blockquote></div><br>I won't be able to do anything about it if the tools are powerful AND smart AND have an agenda AND are self-motivated to pursue that agenda no matter what. Those would be scary tools, for sure.
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou