From: Simon McClenahan (SMcClenahan@ATTBI.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 11:42:48 MST
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From: "Alex Ramonsky" <alex@ramonsky.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: Revolting AI (was economics of star trek)
> I think rather that the level of technological advancement we would like
to
> achieve can only come through slavery. Humans don't have any time to get
> into science and philosophy and art without slavery, because they're too
> busy working their asses off to stay alive. Older civilisations used other
> humans as slaves. We use machines to do all the messy, boring and
dangerous
> jobs (like, mucking out the anaconda). We use tech as slave labor in order
> to free ourselves to create better tech.
> Slaves have a history of revolting. Will we ever hear the cry of "Oh my
god!
> AI is revolting!"...?
If an AI is capable of revolt (in the future), then it would be unethical to
design and enforce a master/slave relationship.
I admit, when it comes to ethical theories, I'm a new amateur at it so far,
so feel free to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. I searched for
"slavery" in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and found this
description of Rule Utilitarianism, which reasons to me that slavery is not
beneficial to society.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/ruleutil.htm
cheers,
Simon
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