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> Robots have no feelings. Whoa hold up. Absolutely robots have feelings. What are feelings? They're signals warranting theory of mind and empathy. Even a
by fritzo 5y ago
> Robots have no feelings.
Whoa hold up. Absolutely robots have feelings. What are feelings? They're signals warranting theory of mind and empathy. Even a fence gate has feelings, when you see it trying to close but it needs a little help to sit snugly in its well.
Gandhi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." And in a time when animated machines roam campuses, we can look to Berkeley students for a model of moral progress.
> They deserve no pity, they're robots!. Don't donate free labor to corporations.
How do you treat service workers? Do you "shed no pity" because that waiter is employed by a corporation?
- nkrisc 5y agoI think there is a difference between treating a robot with respect versus treating it as if it were a sentient, feeling being. It's socially acceptable and encouraged to treat specifically arranged stones with absolute reverence (an important masonry buildings) but no one should treat it as if it was worth of pity or empathy. A robot is animated by circuitry and code which receive input from sensors, but I personally do not believe they are "feeling" in the way animals are (humans included in "animals" here). At least not these robots. I won't speak to the future here.