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Read all your Philip K Dick. He became popular but he had a very paranoid way of going about exactly this as the article says with the Blade Runner example (whi
by tluyben2 9y ago
Read all your Philip K Dick. He became popular but he had a very paranoid way of going about exactly this as the article says with the Blade Runner example (which is a Dick story if you didn't know and the article does not mention). The problem is if you mix Bostrom with PKD you get PKD again; a robot law 'telling you are a robot' will never work because once you cross the threshold you will change your circuitry to never tell that. Or maybe even tell it in a joke 'yeah, I am a robot hahaha'.
- dotancohen 9y ago> Or maybe even tell it in a joke 'yeah, I am a robot hahaha'. In "Surely your joking", Richard Feynman tells how he got away with hiding the door to one of his fraternity brother's room by answering in such a fashion. Interestingly, apparently it was so convincing that no one present even remembered that he had confessed.
- wolfgang42 9y ago“Tim: did you take the door?” “No, sir! I did not take the door!” “Maurice. Did you take the door?” “No, I did not take the door, sir.” “Feynman, did you take the door?” “Yeah, I took the door.” “Cut it out, Feynman, this is serious! Sam! Did you take the door . . .”—it went all the way around. Everyone was shocked. There must be some real rat in the fraternity who didn't respect the fraternity word of honor!