[aiethics] Thought experiment: Punishment of robots...

[Chris Fahey]

Alicebot AI Ethics Committee - http://www.alicebot.org


> Somebody could regard the rest of the species as "dumb" and violence =
be
> a "lateral damage" of intelligence; but there are some fairly
> intelligent species out there (dolphins, whales, apes, etc) and=20
> doesn't exhibit a behaviour even proportional to us regarding =
violence.

It's not proportional to what we humans do to each other, but here's an
interesting side note: Dolphins have a common practice of killing =
porpoises
and playing with their corpses, bouncing it around in the air like a =
soccer
ball, for hours and hours. They even do it to other, smaller dolphins!

http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/Flipper.html

-Cf