AW: AW: [aiethics] What are humans made of?

[Christian DroЯmann]

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



Jared wrote:

> Animals DO NOT make choices.  They have not chosen not to eat.
> By biological necessity they do not eat.  How do you think
> evolution works?  Those who instinctually did not eat survived
> (for whatever reason they "chose" not to eat).  Lemmings fall to

umm...I'm sorry to question your logic again, but wouldn't not eating =
mean
extinction by starvation?
Maybe you meant it the other way round...those who ate survived while =
those
who didn't eat starved to death...

> their demise but they do not choose to do such a thing.  If

Just like all over the world from time to time hundreds of people follow
some weird guru into certain death and call it "religion"...remember =
those
who believed that the world was about to end end that their souls would =
be
saved if they all committed suicide together?
This is a process called "natural selection"...all dumb samples of a =
species
will die so they cannot reproduce...mass-suicides are applied
Darwinism...(alright, this is cynical, but still true)

> animals our moral principles could be applied to them--truly an
> absurdity.  Yes, I'm just a youngen (16) but have spoken with
> talented biologists (argued with many talented biologists I
> should say) about this.

now you argue with us...
I think physical age does not matter in this committee...just like all =
of us
you will gain experience here :-)
After all, I'm only 6 years older than you...

Christian