From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 13:58:39 MST
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> SHRDLU is a program for understanding natural language,
Okay, thanks, so then it appears to me that SHRDLU is essentially a
descendent of its primitive ancestor ELIZA, (though much more advanced
than ELIZA).
> I'm suggesting to use SHRDLU as a model for discussing identity in an
upload
Would you say that ELIZA or SHRDLU have human-like non-nominal
identities? Aren't they merely non-living computer programs, except in
name only?
> If we can agree on this setup, I'm ready to translate
> anything you would want to figure out about real uploads, or
> meat people in above framework. I suggest we start with uploads first,
> because it's so much easier.
I agree to the setup but I am reluctant to start with uploads first. I
think that would be putting the cart before the horse.
As extropians, isn't our monumental problem that of finding a way to
upload the awareness of a living person?
I think we are not interested merely in creating uploads that blindly
simulate their dead human predecessors. As I wrote in another message,
such programs would be nothing more that very hi-tech tombstones.
-gts
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