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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Songs from the Stone Age or: (Re: Minsky's new article)
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In article <39lta8$ek4@babyblue.cs.yale.edu> dmoews@xraysgi.ims.uconn.edu (David Moews) writes:
>Bock,  P.  (1993) [...]
>(iv) it would be unethical to produce intelligent machines because they
>     would undoubtedly be used as slaves.

Not necessarily.

To refer to that much quoted pillar of modern philosophy... the Hitch Hiker's
Guide to the Galaxy... the Bable Fish was used as a slave, but thrived well
in the deal.

I suppose a more serious answer would be 'symbiosis'.
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

