Re: Paradox--was Re: Active shields, was Re: Criticism depth, was Re: Homework, Nuke, etc..

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 21:51:25 MST

And since humans are meat machines, we can't trust humans. QED.
Nothing new under the sun.

John Marlow wrote:
>
> Okay, call me self-aggrandizing, but this has for some
> time been my take on entrusting our fates to machines:
>
> Marlow's Paradox:
>
> “We cannot entrust our fate to machines without
> emotions, for they have no compassion; we cannot
> entrust our fate to machines with emotions, for they
> are unpredictable.”
>
> Basically, we can't trust machines.

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:04:47 MST