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In theory we could rig up a quad copter with a machine gun, loudspeaker, and AI, with programming that demands that every human it encounters be interrogated wi
by dbpokorny 11y ago
In theory we could rig up a quad copter with a machine gun, loudspeaker, and AI, with programming that demands that every human it encounters be interrogated with the question, "do I, a mechanical computer, have the ability to think?" and if the human gives a negative reply, it uses the machine gun on the human until the human is dead or decides to utter a positive response: "yes, this flying death machine can think".
Whether or not we say "machines can think" is a political question, and political power comes out of the barrel of a gun. If a machine can wield political power, then it can get you to say "machines can think" because truth is inherently political.
- cousin_it 11y agoYou can also be forced to say that 2+2=5, but that doesn't make it true. "Can machines think?" demands a substantive answer.
- dbpokorny 11y agoThe answer to that question depends on whether or not a robot is pointing a gun at your head. Might makes right.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoMight can make people lie. That does not make the lies into the truth.
- dbpokorny 11y agoI'm not qualified to continue this discussion further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicWZl9HmU4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicWZl9HmU4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_truths_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_truths_doctrine