> I don't understand how you can ban a machine from doing something that a human can do. We do it all the time. - Phone autodialers are legal, but particular

> I don't understand how you can ban a machine from doing something that a human can do. We do it all the time. - Phone autodialers are legal, but particular uses are fairly heavily regulated (in theory, at least). - Heavy machinery use is regulated in a variety of ways. - LEOs in the US recently were told GPS bugs (which "just" do what humans can do - taking notes on where a human goes) require warrants. - Explosives dig much faster than humans. These are heavily regulated. - Most radios sold in the US will refuse to tune certain bands for legal reasons, even though it is trivial to modify some of them to do so. Etc. As far as your slippery slope argument, it simply doesn't matter. The point is to reduce the harm done by a given tech, not achieve some sort of abstract purity of thought.