Technology neverending, is that ethical?

[Zetherin]

Originally Posted by Holiday20310401

What's your definition of conscience? Because what would you call somebody if their actions were governed not by the sense of right and wrong, say that sense was deprived, what would a person turn to? Emotion?, lets say that emotion was not available, what else would determine actions.

Domination.

Taken from the article I posted earlier:
"Berglas (2008) argues that unlike man, a computer based intelligence is not tied to any particular body, which would give it a radically different world view. In particular, a software intelligence would essentially be immortal and so have no need to produce independent children that live on after it dies. It would thus have no evolutionary need for love. But it would have an evolutionary need for power because the first AI that wants to and can dominate the earth will dominate the earth."

[Holiday20310401]

Yes but do people have the ability to want due to emotion or by conscience? Is it possible that emotion has nothing to do with wanting something, and that we only want something because it would be of what is based on right and wrong, we only want right and wrong... I'll develop later

[Zetherin]

Originally Posted by Holiday20310401

Yes but do people have the ability to want due to emotion or by conscience? Is it possible that emotion has nothing to do with wanting something, and that we only want something because it would be of what is based on right and wrong, we only want right and wrong... I'll develop later

Well, that's getting a bit off topic, buddy. If you want to create a new thread, I'd be more than happy to respond.

[Holiday20310401]

lol. I created this thread, I personally like where this is going, am too eager to here your input.

[Critz]

Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas

If we keep at it, destruction is inevitable. But if we stop our 'progress', then the chance of avoiding this annihilation must drop, at least to some degree.

The ironic part is, if you refer to 'we' as North America, then the stopping of our 'progress' would also doom us, as other rival nations would surley continue growing if they saw self-benifet. Eventually We could then potentially become '3rd world'- a fate possibly worse then destruction?

[Holiday20310401]

Perhaps technology will inhibit social contract and the need for a leader in that we will all live in a false reality created by ourselves that we live in; or maybe we will just be interacting with programs, machines instead of other people at a certain point. Due of course to technology.