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>From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI failures
Message-ID: <1992Apr30.172550.7748@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 30 Apr 92 05:25:50 GMT
References: <zlsiida.91@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
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In article <zlsiida.91@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
> Do you eat meat?
> Was the animal possessed of intelligence, however small?
> An AI failure isn't the same as a person, murder is wrong but killing may 
> not be.

Depends on the degree of 'failure'. If we consider a machine with the
intellectual capacity of a 3 year old to be a failure (for whatever purpose
we may have in mind) does it cease to AS INTELLIGENT as a three year old?
Does it then have the same rights as a three year old?

Besides, there are those who would say that meat is murder. I eat meat, but
still consider it wrong to kill animals for no reason. Do you consider it
right to kill a pet just because you have become tired of it?
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