From: "Reason" <reason@exratio.com>
> Is it just me, or is the vast body of Western law all there
> to implicitly deny that people have any responsibility for their actions?
No, it's there to delineate the pecking order of the establishment.
Those who are best at manipulating the law advance to the highest stations in
society.
I think Lawyer-bots will need to be adept at this process if human-competitive
AI is
to emerge.
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Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values, scientific relinquishment, malevolent AI,
non-sensory experience, SETI
We move into a better future in proportion as science displaces superstition.
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