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Article 5513 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: A.I. failures
Message-ID: <1992May9.170139.7984@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 9 May 92 17:01:39 +1200
References: <6MAY199218170584@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <zlsiida.196@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
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In article <zlsiida.196@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
> It occurs to me that I would be less sure about pulling the plug on an AI
> construct based on biological hardware.

Why? Would you feel differently about a silicon-based intelligence that
evolved on its own?
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