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>From: todd@ai09.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Todd Law)
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Subject: Re: AI failures
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Date: 10 May 92 05:06:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz's message of 30 Apr 92 05:25:50 GMT


Murder.
Meat eating.
Even human eating.

The notion of right or wrong is purely imposed on us
at a societal level.  In different places, at different
times in history, all of the above have been designated
as permissible behaviour.

Right or wrong for killing a program with the intelligence
of a 3 year old can also be determined at a societal level,
disconnected from philosophy or science.  The determination
is completely irrespective of facts or logic (this is how
people come to be pro-abortion vegetarians...)


Todd Law
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