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>From: siemens@france.mpr.ca (Curtis Siemens)
Subject: Re: Morality and artificial minds
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Just to add my 2 bits.

Where did the belief that 'appearance of intelligence' suddenly give the
mechanism which displayed the intelligence value?

I know that the Christian religion teaches that killing humans is wrong
and it is ok to kill animals/plants/insects etc.  Though killing animals/
plants/insects needlessly is spoken against.

Where does Intelligence=Value come from?

What if we make a thinking machine that is smarter than any human being,
where does the moral of "now we can't kill it" come from?  We might not
want to kill it because it does useful work for us, but this doesn't
give it moral value.
And if you are going to say that Intelligence=Moral Value, then one could
argue that many dumb machines like a motorcycle have some imbedded
intelligence - just an intelligence that can't learn etc.

Curtis.


