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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefano Vaj<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] From Friendly AI to Loving AI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6 May 2011 08:23, Kelly Anderson <<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>If you want a serious treatment of this subject, I highly recommend<br>Love + Sex with Robots by David Levy<span style='color:#1F497D'>… </span>I suspect someone very soon will combine robotics with the RealDoll,<br>and create an extremely expensive, amazing device that will make th<span style='color:#1F497D'>e </span>moral majority very uncomfortable.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Focus on this a minute. If someone manages to create a sex machine and the moral majority is squirmy about it, I ask them to show me in their sacred literature exactly what commandment or principle or ethical guideline is being violated by the whole notion. Do let them cite the example of Onan in Genesis 38:8-10, I’m ready, eager even, to debate that. Go ahead, I dare ya. {8^D Kelly, you are one who was trained in that discipline (religion based morality.) Pretend you are still in that thought-space, and do suggest a line of argument that there is AAAAANYTHING at all wrong with taking care of one’s biological needs using a sexbot. Anything. Bible only, no Mormon lit please. Be prepared; I have pondered this long and hard, and I find nothing, nada. {8^D {8-]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>This makes me think of the debate endlessly resurfacing on the poorly-defined and somewhat contradictory idea "friendly AIs".<span style='color:#1F497D'> …</span>If he or she is not bound to (behave as if he) be sexually attracted by you, there is little point in having one around just as a sex toy when your chances are just the same with a fellow human being. Or perhaps better... :-)<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>-- <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Stefano Vaj<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For a remarkable Hollywood treatment of this topic, see West World:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That was made nearly 40 years ago, but it was a fun romp, not a comedy but not really a terror drama either; rather it was thought provoking, and way ahead of its time. It has so many elements we yak on about today: AGI, friendly evolving to unfriendly, sexbots, good kick and stomp with Yul Brenner doing a convincing job as a proto-Data, lots of good visuals for those of us who appreciate early to mid 1970s fashion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>