From: "Peter Haworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:38:54 +0000, Simon Wistow wrote: > > Say he's wrong and that turning off an AI is like killing it or whatever. > > Is it morally wrong to run it on unstable OSs like Windows, MacOS. <troll> > > or Linux </troll> > > > On the other hand, surely the AI has a reasonable chance if you take regular > backups? :-) > Well yes - we need totally different rules for AIs. Surely if it is really intelligent, it will have distributed itself through the network, so that turning it off won't really be possible, unless you turn the whole internet off (name that SF book!).
/Robert
