NP - Ban on robot...what?

[David Morris]

The spectrum of prostitution now has sex-worker rights advocates, so values
are elastic.

AI in this discussion implies slavery, involuntary submission (BTW this has
nothing to do w the initial story), but why would sex with a human be
viewed by an AI as different than any other act of service? Sex isn't the
issue. Involuntary servitude is the issue. And beneath that question is the
one of self-knowing and agency Vs programming.  Everything else is just
projection.

David Morris

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> But why would an AI care what people are doing to sexbots? There are
> more (human) sex slaves now than at any time in history and you don't
> see the rest of humanity rising up to end the injustice. It's always
> been a strange fantasy that machines will have some kind of mass group
> solidarity that humans generally lack.
>
> Ex Machina was a must-see film though. Does complicate the usual
> questions by making gender such an explicit focus.
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:39 AM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > To be fair, it's not my turf. Bierce was here first. cf. 'Moxon's Master'
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