Charlie Coleman wrote:
> 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
>
Doh! Auch! Please supply the poster with a functioning brain!
If you grant the robot "free will" when you "know" the robot is enough
stupid as to make bad decisions then you are just a sadist or stupid
enough as to make bad decisions yourself.
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