From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> There are borderline cases when we deal with entities that are not fully
> ethical subjects but quite close to it, such as children, deranged
> people and half-built AIs. In this case partial rights may be necessary
> as other entities are allowed influence over the first entity in order
> to safeguard its personhood and development, but it is a whole
> thead in itself how to best handle that.
Consistent with your attribution of partial rights, these borderline cases
retain the right to remain silent, they have the right to sing the blues, and
the half-natural right to influence those who handle these issues. (τΏτ)
Near-term, expect to find ourselves dealing with the escalation of
"relinquishment" into restraint, suppression, and curtailment. Cybernetics
does, after all, derive from the idea of control. To succeed, to prevent
runaway evolutionary phase transition, "relinquishment" requires universal
enforcement. The International Bureau of Robot Meme Control will necessarily
enlist robocops much more sophisticated than Echelon or Carnivore, don't you
think?
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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