Originally posted by Ardesco
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Meh, we could insult robots as much as we want and never fear the consequences cause the 3 laws* will always protect us!
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*unless of course some truely global organisation releases a new model that can give the 3 laws its own meaning!Comment
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Originally posted by ArdescoThey don't have feelings (why would you program a robot to screw up for no reason now and again because they were feeling bad), they don't experience pain (Why would you code them to feel pain, what use could it have?), discrimination against them would really have no effect as they would be programmed to peform a specific task.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Absolute twaddle. What machines detect are problems that need to be fixed not a physical sensation we call pain.
Stop assigning values to innanimate chunks of metal. Next thing you know you will be comparing man to god and robots to his creations!
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Originally posted by MailmanAbsolute twaddle. What machines detect are problems that need to be fixed not a physical sensation we call pain.
Mailman
But if we can get a machine to be conscious then there is no reason it would not feel pain, just because it was built of metal. What is pain but a series of electro-chemical states?Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by MailmanAbsolute twaddle. What machines detect are problems that need to be fixed not a physical sensation we call pain.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraManAnd pain is just an electrical impulse telling the brain that something is wrong. It's no different in principle to an electrical sensor in a machine reporting a fault to it's control unit.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguruIndeed. But why do we associate feelings of unpleasantness with it?Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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Originally posted by sasguruIndeed. But why do we associate feelings of unpleasantness with it?Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraManIf it was pleasurable we wouldn't move away/run/stop doing it/see a doctor etc. When modern cars detect a fault they reduce power and go into "limp home mode" which isn't that far removed from how our bodies react to injury. To what extent you can say the car feels pain is a matter of philosiphy, but if you pick up something hot you don't go through an intelligent consicious process to reach a decision about what to do, you drop it instictively. In that way we're no different to a machine that's been programmed to drop something in response to a heat sensor to protect itself from injury.Hard Brexit now!
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