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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Subject: Re: AI failures
Message-ID: <1992May14.030934.22659@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
References: <1992May12.162908.6586@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <1992May13.044532.3389@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992May13.164932.9954@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 03:09:34 GMT
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In article <1992May13.164932.9954@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson) writes:
>Wayne Peterson
>
>> That is why we play the game
>>as we do, and we pretend that some absolute
>>morality compells us to behave as we do.
>
>I think you are forgetting conscience, compassion, good
>will, and common sense.  I think Plato was right when
>he said that we are inherently good, evil is a result
>of our own ignorance.
>> If
>>there is one sure thing in life, it's that
>>there is NO sure thing!
>
>Death seems to be a sure thing.
>
Seems to be, BUT is not! Statistics are on my side,
a great percentage of the people that where ever alive
are alive today! (I think it's even greater than 50%)
The world pop. is about 5 Billion, and climbing, death
has yet to catch up.

>> And any intelligent
>>being will think ahead to the possibilities
>>and make the best compromise.
>
>
>What do we compromise?  What do we give up? For what ends?
>Should we think ahead to death?
>
Since we don't know the moment of death, or the possibilities
if we prolong it, it is pretty meaningless to look ahead to
death. Meanwhile, you give up implanting your genes in you
neighbors wife, and the pleasure of having items of value
that your neighbor owns! (For the compromise that he will
not do likewise to you.)
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>*   AZ    -- zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca                            *
>*     " The first hundred years are the hardest! " - W. Mizner  *
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>I believe that.
>
>Regards,
>Wayne Peterson
>
>"Being ground by the wheels of time and space."


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