At 07:23 PM 3/10/2008 -0400, Ed Leafe wrote:
>On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
>
> > So it's easy to say you'd never let your daughter go to hell.
> But would you
> > let anyone go to hell? Even that guy who raped your daughter? Were you the
> > one that said you'd kill the offender right off... you'd accept the
> > consequences, but you'd still kill him?
>
> The difference you are ignoring is that Ricardo did not create
> the rapist.
>
> If you were to assume that Ricardo is all-powerful (ok, stop
> giggling
>and pay attention!), and he created, say, a bunch of robots, and one
>were to have programming errors so bad that the robot ended up killing
>his daughter, who's at fault here? The robot, or the bad programmer?
If I granted the robot "free will," then it would indeed be the robot that
was responsible. Now, I suppose the debate becomes is "free will" a
"programming error" or not.
-Charlie
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