From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 13:25:09 MDT
sylvia m. wrote:
> Michael Roy Ames wrote:
>
>
>> Friendly AI = Specific design
>>
>> vs Sysop Scenario = One speculation out of many
>>
>
>
> how about the old Fidonet philosophy of "everyone equally armed ot the
> teeth and no casualties"? doesn't violence take a different meaning in
> virtual space? bloodshed just becomes a mutable image, while mental
> cruelty or limitation becomes entirely devastating.
>
Personally I have never found "virtual space" violence any more
palatable than the physical space variety. I abhor both. I
don't believe it is good for people psychological to spend their
time fragging other people virtually. At least it doesn't
actually kill people. But when/if we upload, then what? Where
does reality end and virtuality begin?
- samantha
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