The First Church of Robotics

[Jude Bloom]

Right. As opposed to the last 200,000 years of existence?  When haven't people treated other people like disposable machines?



On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/opinion/09lanier.html?_r=1
> 
> What bothers me most about this trend, however, is that by allowing
> artificial intelligence to reshape our concept of personhood, we are
> leaving ourselves open to the flipside: we think of people more and
> more as computers, just as we think of computers as people.