[extropy-chat] Sterling, Wired, and the Singularity

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:58:11PM -0700, Zero Powers wrote:
>  
> > If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
> 
> If it first takes your job, asking for a lower salary, and then takes
> your body for fuel and atoms questions about "is it conscious, I
> wonder?" are ridiculous.

People who talk about ducks to define what is and isn't something
always seem to forget about platypuses....  they have rounded bills,
webbed feet, lay eggs, and spend most of their time in the water....
and are not ducks.

If you could teach a platypus to say "AFLAC", would you call it a duck?

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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