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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 250: Hearing Laws
Nelson_Mandela 11/30/19 11:45:08 AM #344:	Jakyl25 posted... Nelson_Mandela posted... I wish I could fast forward to the future where our progeny views all of us as awful people for the way we dehumanized our AI technology. Everyone in history is terrible in retrospect when you cast aside moral relevatism. It's actually one of the most boring and pointless debates to have. Thats a weak argument. I think we are all in agreement already that any AI that becomes conscious actually should have rights. Sci-fi has been tackling this issue for decades. Did the people running the slave trade not know that the Africans were humans? Not every slaveholder was a sadist, as much as you'd like to think they were. Many felt that treating their slaves humanely and giving them a home and provisions was affording them a better life than a free man in Africa would have. We now see that as wrong, but every generation is "morally superior" to the last. I guarantee that someone studying your life in 200 years can make an argument that you are a morally corrupt person from 23rd century morality. (If you want an example, you're a terrible person because you burn fossil fuels and contribute to mass extinction.) It's a stupid waste of time to judge historical figures based present-day morality. Everything must be studied in context. Any historian worth his salt will agree. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:930908595] in Politics C... [t:78196160]...</cite> <quote>Jakyl25 posted...</cite> <quote>Nelson_Mandela posted...</cite> <quote>I wish I could fast forward to the future where our progeny views all of us as awful people for the way we dehumanized our AI technology. Everyone in history is terrible in retrospect when you cast aside moral relevatism. It's actually one of the most boring and pointless debates to have.</quote> Thats a weak argument. I think we are all in agreement already that any AI that becomes conscious actually should have rights. Sci-fi has been tackling this issue for decades. Did the people running the slave trade not know that the Africans were humans?</quote> Not every slaveholder was a sadist, as much as you'd like to think they were. Many felt that treating their slaves humanely and giving them a home and provisions was affording them a better life than a free man in Africa would have. We now see that as wrong, but every generation is "morally superior" to the last. I guarantee that someone studying your life in 200 years can make an argument that you are a morally corrupt person from 23rd century morality. (If you want an example, you're a terrible person because you burn fossil fuels and contribute to mass extinction.) It's a stupid waste of time to judge historical figures based present-day morality. Everything must be studied in context. Any historian worth his salt will agree. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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