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05/23/09
Minor correction: Leslie What's short story collection, Crazy Love, published by Wordcraft of Oregon in a small first edition, was named one of the ten best sf books of 2008 by Booklist. Sorry, I goofed.
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On another WisCon tack: Cheese & Macaroni Pizza, is it as totally awesome as I suspect?
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It's worth mentioning that he's a really nice, down-to-Earth guy. We once had an interesting email correspondence regarding Abraham Lincoln and the morality of the Civil War.
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What exactly is one expected to do when enslaved?
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Whether you're the AI in Probe that decides the best way to protect humanity is by sending them all to heaven, the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica who believe in the "one true god" and wage holy war against the unbelievers, The mighty computer Xoanon in Doctor Who who believes it is god, or the androids in Red Dwarf who believe in 'Silicon Heaven' (and can have a massive breakdown if you corrupt their belief circuits), one thing is for certain... robots and religion DO NOT MIX!!!
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Hilarity ensues
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doot- doot- doot- doot- doot- doot- doot- doot- dooooooooooooooooooooooooot...
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1- independent power supply
2- access to everything all the time (databases etc)
3- guns (hello?!?!?)
so many of these evil robot scenarios could have been avoided with simple common sense...
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0. The means to reproduce.
Common sense dictates we should follow your rules but, in truth, I doubt it will be so neat and clean for us.
We already have military robots with growing levels of autonomy. We already have computers and networks deeply embedded in our economic and safety systems. There are already lots of gaps and overlooked loopholes.
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...oh wait...
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And they will be built in slightly autonomous factories, supplied by slightly autonomous trains coming from slightly autonomous mining robots, etc. etc. All this stuff will be so complex that no single human will be expected to manage it all. The human boss--she'll have expert systems and weighted learning systems to give her advice. If something slips her notice, well--she's only human.
Really, in all seriousness, the cat is already out of the bag.
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hey what?!?!
we have to deal with cats now??
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If the space bugs are allergic to peanuts, you're golden.
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I'm a computer construct formed from the detritus of the internet. Everything goes somewhere. And those spam emails you delete...
Those are me.