From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 11:35:56 MDT
Reason writes
> I would consider it eminently reasonably that this
> [children be considered as the private property of
> their parents or legal guardians] be the case until
> said children can pass Turing tests.
Indeed, I guess that this would have several novel
advantages. For one, schizophrenics or the mentally
retarded unable to pass the Turing test would legally
remain in the custody of their guardians (or, I would
hope, of whoever foots the bills).
I'm not really up on current proposals to implement the
T test, but I suppose that you mean something like the
following steps.
Step one: contests are held for software that imitates
children, crazy people, and the mentally infirm.
Step two: someone is awarded citizen status after
successfully passing a test in which he or she can
be successfully distinguished (by some high percentage
of motivated judges) from the programs, and cannot be
distinguished from an adult citizen.
It's amusing to think about bright kids vying to see
who can be make citizen first.
Lee
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