Charlie Coleman wrote: > At 07:23 PM 3/10/2008 -0400, Ed Leafe wrote: >> On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote: >> >>> So it's easy to say you'd never let your daughter go to hell. >> But would you >>> let anyone go to hell? Even that guy who raped your daughter? Were you the >>> one that said you'd kill the offender right off... you'd accept the >>> consequences, but you'd still kill him? >> The difference you are ignoring is that Ricardo did not create >> the rapist. >> >> If you were to assume that Ricardo is all-powerful (ok, stop >> giggling >> and pay attention!), and he created, say, a bunch of robots, and one >> were to have programming errors so bad that the robot ended up killing >> his daughter, who's at fault here? The robot, or the bad programmer? > > If I granted the robot "free will," then it would indeed be the robot that > was responsible. Now, I suppose the debate becomes is "free will" a > "programming error" or not. > > -Charlie >
Doh! Auch! Please supply the poster with a functioning brain! If you grant the robot "free will" when you "know" the robot is enough stupid as to make bad decisions then you are just a sadist or stupid enough as to make bad decisions yourself. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
