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Does the feeling of right and wrong means sentience?
by Egregore 13y ago
Does the feeling of right and wrong means sentience?
- seiji 13y agoYou can have codified right and wrong, but that's widely different. Sharia right and wrong varies from US Constitutional right and wrong varies from US-in-practice right and wrong. I'd argue you need sentience for any meaningful right and wrong. There are a few universal rights we can't even agree on as a society, so having Evil Corp Government Agglomerated strictly defining right and wrong is, well, wrong. The downside is a perversion of sentient AI could end up with Evil Sentient Sharia AI that shoots non-burka wearing females or an Evil Sentient Hasidic AI that shoots any non-beard-n-curls-n-hat wearing dudes or Evil Sentient Spaghetti Monster AI who force feeds carbs to everybody not wearing a strainer on their heads. In short: determining what is right and wrong requires sentience. Just following what you are told is right and wrong does not.