[extropy-chat] Moveon.org

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 17 21:42:48 UTC 2004


--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- Trend Ologist <trendologist at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >  Why doesn't America start a long term program to
> > build an android for president? We could vote on
> > what
> > we want president android to look like and how to
> > speak. Program the android to tell the truth. Build
> > the android to be a combination of all races and to
> > have no gender. The android should have a term limit
> > chip implanted in its brain so it wont try to be
> > re-elected.
> 
> Because people would be super-afraid - with good
> reason - that the few people who actually build the
> android would heavily bias it towards their own
> ideals, thus screwing the rest of Americans where they
> disagree with the builders.  Guidelines to prevent
> this could be passed for major issues (like race and
> gender, as you mention), but this is impractical at
> best for covering every minor issue.
> 
> And that's ignoring the whole "AIs are not human"
> issue.

Yes, some will complain that the android programming is not open
source, while others will complain that its innermost thoughts will be
easily gamable by enemy states if its programming is open source.
Whether or not to equip it with sex organs or an appreciation for
cigars and saxaphones, broccoli, jellybeans, or an aversion to reading,
smiling, or speaking proper english, etc. Then again, anybody who has
seen Kerry's sense of humor knows that we already have an android
candidate.. ;)

=====
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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