From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Tue Jan 14 1997 - 08:34:29 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> I don't think he meant to imply that playing the game itself would be
> immoral; that's just interacting with the sentient according to its
> nature. But what about after the sentient game has been played for a
> few hours, learned about its opponent and about itself, and is aware
> of itself and what it has learned? Wouldn't turning the machine off
> at that point be destroying a sentient being?
If turning it off meant that it was dumping what it had learned,
probably yes. If it was able to store what it had learned, then probably
no.
--
TANSTAAFL!!!
Michael Lorrey
------------------------------------------------------------
President retroman@tpk.net
Northstar Technologies Agent Lorrey@ThePentagon.com
Inventor of the Lorrey Drive Silo_1013@ThePentagon.com
Website: http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/
Now Featuring:
My Own Nuclear Espionage Agency (MONEA)
MIKEYMAS(tm): The New Internet Holiday
Transhumans of New Hampshire (>HNH)
------------------------------------------------------------
Transhumanist, Inventor, Webmaster, Ski Guide, Entrepreneur,
Artist, Outdoorsman, Libertarian, Arms Exporter-see below.
------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl-0777---export-a-crypto-system-sig-RC4-3-lines-PERL
@k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_
]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256;
&S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:44:00 MST