[alicebot-aiethics] Ok, who would deny Hawking the first artificial body?

[Richard Wallace]

You guys can have my artificial body, I am not so excited about the prospect
of my particular mind having an eternal existence, other than the one
already planned for it by God.  Perhaps the lust for physical immortality
declines rapidly after the age of 40.  Duplicates of my mind may however be
backed up in various copies of the ALICE program however.

Rich

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Fahey [askROM]" <askrom@graphpaper.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:05 AM
Subject: RE: [alicebot-aiethics] Ok, who would deny Hawking the first
artificial body?


> Tamara wrote:
> > >
> > > Just curious, would anyone actually fight over who gets the
> > > first artificial human body?
>
> Christian wrote:
>
> > To answer your question: I would!
>
> I agree, I would too. In all honesty I'd selfishly vote to give it to a
> sick loved one (my loved one) before giving it to him. I must point out
> that this whole conversation (who should get the artificial body?) is
> teetering on the edge of a eugenics debate and that personal opinions on
> the 'value' of one person over another are totally subjective and
> arbitrary.
>
> -Cf
>
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