[PLUG] What does software feel like to a computer?

[Denis Heidtmann]

Please end this here and move it to PLUG TALK.


On 5/25/09, Darren Couch <dcouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>> This thread is plug-talk, not plug
>> appropriate.
>>
>> Computers are not sentient. Even if one
>> was sentient, the wise programmer would
>> be very careful and work very hard to
>> build in a robust ethical framework or
>> at the very least a fail safe.
>>
>> People are not machines.  Trying to
>> attribute feelings to machines in
>> order to devalue humanity is where
>> I think this is going and I don't
>> care for that.
>>
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> Really? I've met several people indistinguishable from machines...
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