<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div class="y_msg_container"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:22:50PM -0700, Gordon wrote:</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>> I would like sometimes to shoot my stand-alone chess computer. It sometimes</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>> seems as if there is a cunning
SOB living in that box. I think spike can</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>> relate. But I also know it would not be murder. My chess computer is no more</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>> conscious than a rock. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> I guess it's okay if an autonomous drone murders you, then.</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> Or is it the operator? Or the maker? Or the developer?</span><br><br><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It's the human computer operator in that case. He or she wants me dead. But who/what is operating my chess computer when I want to shoot it dead? I think I am the computer operator, but I suppose the human developers and </span>manufacturers<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> are complicit. My chess computer is no more than a blind </span></span>unconscious<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> tool that I am using against myself for the sport
of it.</span><br><br></div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">-Gordon</div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>