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02-26-2014, 03:38 PM | #1471 |
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02-26-2014, 03:40 PM | #1472 |
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Come on, dude. Do eye glasses have rights? Can they vote? Can they make complex inferences and decisions? Answer some of my questions and maybe I'll get to answering this ridiculous nonsense.
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02-26-2014, 03:40 PM | #1473 |
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02-26-2014, 03:46 PM | #1474 |
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02-26-2014, 03:52 PM | #1475 |
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You have a right to believe what you want. This is a science thread. You want to bring politics/religion into the discussion start a thread in the DC forum.
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02-26-2014, 03:57 PM | #1476 |
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A discussion such as this might be better off in the DC section, but don't pretend like it's all about me and my viewpoint. You jumped right in asking me questions and jumping my ass for not being all excited about a subject that has serious ethical implications.
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02-26-2014, 03:57 PM | #1477 |
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I would argue that there's a very large difference between using a tool to correct a physical disability (eye glasses and hearing aids) and the ability to download the contents of a human mind into another non-human machine.
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02-26-2014, 03:59 PM | #1478 | |
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02-26-2014, 04:02 PM | #1479 |
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No, it isn't all like that. But there are always outliers. There are always people willing to forgo ethics in the name of progress. I'm sure Hitler's human test subjects would agree with me, if they were alive.
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02-26-2014, 04:09 PM | #1480 |
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Well that's fine and dandy, but like everything else in the world, there's always gonna be some bad apples. And just like everything else, we don't let the fear of a few bad apple prohibit forward progress as a whole. I think Hitler's human test subject would agree with me too, if they were alive.
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02-26-2014, 04:21 PM | #1482 |
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02-26-2014, 04:26 PM | #1485 |
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