NP - Ban on robot...what?

[David Morris]

In other words, AI to be discussed post-singularity is no longer AI.  It
would then be a living being, and would be expected to dislike slavery.

David Morris

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>
>> wrote:
>> > To be fair, it's not my turf. Bierce was here first. cf. 'Moxon's
>> Master'
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