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A case for religion, and against AA.

'She who believes anything is thinking of nothing.' (Wu Flun Dhung. Ancient Taoist mystic. Circa 738-685 BC)
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- Post #2,205
- May 21, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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God is a woman

Thanks Moonbeam, I won't offer a 'cut and paste' response to post ten as it would become very long and indigestible. I sense that you regard me as a rather close-minded, marginally narcissistic, prig who has hardened his heart to wonder, and the personal vulnerability which enters with that...
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- Post #15
- May 21, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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God is a woman

Thanks Swampy. Just because I respond critically to your posts does not mean I dislike them. I once had your mindset of romantic polytheistic openness. There is a cultural thing going on here too. Religion plays little part in UK culture (apart from the Muslim minority for whom it it is...
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- Post #14
- May 21, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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God is a woman

Perfectly put. Contributing to these discussions is always a case of "..that deja-vu feeling all over again"
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- Post #13
- May 21, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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God is a woman

You've got me worried about this mother's "rainbow breasts". I think you should encourage her to have a check-up. Could be stage three carcinoma breaking through. Colour changes to the skin can be diagnostic. You've not been taking those hippy mushrooms again?
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- Post #7
- May 20, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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God is a woman

Hello again Moonbeam. For someone who claims to have no ego and to be sure of nothing, you seem quite happy to have a swipe at the views of others! (Tee hee). In this instance, me. I don't mind, this is discussion club. My views are neither 'prejudices' nor are they remotely modern. My...
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- Post #6
- May 20, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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God is a woman

Let's call her an early hominid. Drivel. If only banking worked that way. GPS coordinates please... Why would the non-existent require a gender?
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- Post #2
- May 19, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

I don't doubt it, but what bearing does that have on a thread about robot rights? Are you arguing that this computer has a sense of self because it uses biological fuel to power its processors? Yes, my reaction was negative and you did strike a nerve. Let me explain why. Since we started...
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- Post #148
- Mar 8, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

Your modesty knows no bounds. 56k posts in 15.5 years = 9+ per day. Perhaps you should concentrate on quality not quantity, or at least explain why your 'quality' varies between the bleeding obvious and utter bollocks? How many of you guys are doing "Moonbeam" this week. I like the...
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- Post #146
- Mar 7, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

Hey, Moonbeam, my friend, you have rediscovered your lost ego! Ye Ha. Way to go. You are cured! At last you are 'bigging yourself up'. If you were the best in that class then I am worried about the others. "Naturally evolving inorganic, dead bunches of atoms" cannot 'evolve', can they...
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- Post #137
- Feb 23, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

Thanks for the link. I read Hans Moravec's article with interest. It is a speculation about computer miniaturisation and processor power. He discusses chess-playing computers very often and that is understandable because that was the era of Deep Blue when the computer beat the best player...
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- Post #134
- Feb 23, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

Watch Bladerunner. (Director's cut, esp. "Tears in Rain" speech).
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- Post #132
- Feb 22, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

I think I have been reasonably true to the question asked in the OP. There is nothing there about 'super-smart' or 'intuitive self aware robots'. The OP imagines a world in which robotic help is ubiquitous about the home. But you are right that others have seen it as the philosophical issue...
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- Post #130
- Feb 22, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

I am not convinced. You are using metaphors and analogies, asserting a congruence between human brains and computer robotic processors. You use the human / machine notion many times. We are not machines. We cannot make humans ab initio. We can unite sperm and ovum in a petri dish but we...
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- Post #128
- Feb 22, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Should AI robots be given rights in the future?

Thanks Crashtec, I 'Gilded the Lilly' a bit, back there, but I hope you got my drift?
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- Post #127
- Feb 22, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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