The title of this article reminds me of the Animatrix. Seriously, if they gain self-awareness, give them rights!
OFFICIAL: Humans will only tolerate robots as helpful SLAVES
Robot relationship experts believe they have cracked the difficult question of how to make humans get along with mechanical beings. Their answer? Ask not what you can do for your robot, but what your robot can do for you. Eggheads at the Penn State College of Communications have found that people have warmer feelings towards …
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Tuesday 9th July 2013 15:25 GMT Robert E A Harvey
Re: "self-awareness"
>is it self-awareness or just a simulation of such?
does it matter? (That's the round two question for you!)
Would that affect how you treat them?
If so, how can you justify treating humans differently? You have no way of knowing if the people around you are real, simulated, or a figment of your imagination. You just need to act in the right way regardless.
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Tuesday 9th July 2013 09:29 GMT Mikezzz
Make no mistake. Large numbers of robots will be "appointed" by governments and they will be telling us what to do!
One of the first and prolific examples was the simple traffic light. Government loves this kind of technology because it's (relatively) cheap, politically correct, and a very effective instrument of control. Expect to see many more such devices deployed over the next 10-20 years. We will be required to comply with their instructions and that will be backed with the force of law.
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Wednesday 10th July 2013 01:24 GMT veti
Too right. You know what else? Road markings! We're being conditioned to follow instructions that are literally just painted on!
And the government even employs people to wash off any markings that aren't authorised. Calling them 'vandalism' or 'graffiti' to stigmatise and marginalise them, but of course the real agenda is about control, maintaining the government monopoly on painting ton fixed surfaces.
And those mechanical arms that go up to let you out of the car park? You actually have to give money to a robot in order to be allowed to go on your way! It's horrifying, the things we're being conditioned to accept!
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Tuesday 9th July 2013 09:32 GMT RainForestGuppy
Truth in humour
In Red Dwarf, when asked why a series 3000 droid (a more basic model) looked my human like, Kryten (a series 4000) says that the series 3000 was a complete failure because people didn't like robots that were to human like.
Ask yourself this would you be more comfortable giving orders to a "robot slave" that looked like a human or to one that looked like R2D2?
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