s_c_baker wrote:VICTORY!
Teacakes and patricide for everybody.
Fishcakes for me please! And I'll just settle for regular homicide.

*Nice Elinor shuffles the Gator hurriedly off stage.*
s_c_baker wrote:VICTORY!
Teacakes and patricide for everybody.
s_c_baker wrote:How about pseudocide, Gator? We have a special deal on that, today only!
Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:Ah, yes... It's that time again... Time for the submission system to close early and send people into panic...
Memories...
bobsandiego wrote:Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:Ah, yes... It's that time again... Time for the submission system to close early and send people into panic...
Memories...
I deserved that for all the dithering I did....
Ishmael wrote:Dibs? Dibs? What language is this sirrah?
Meanest thou 'Bags I'?
I'faith, the colonies contain much strange speech!
hazlett wrote:I think we just need to set a new goal for this thread:
5,000 posts.
What say you all?
bobsandiego wrote:At least we utilize the correct number of 'U's.
bobsandiego wrote:So question for all you very talented SF writers:
Picture a human colony that starts from germ cells. Artificial wombs, A.I. computers to raise at least the first generation of people. (Saves a bundle on shipping costs.) Assume that you expect said colony will have no future contact with Earth.
Now your first generation of colonists are a multi-ethnic bunch, but what about names?
Do you set the A.I. with the instructions to match names to terrestrial ethnic heritage, or do you let the A.I. randomly assign names?
bobsandiego wrote:So question for all you very talented SF writers:
Picture a human colony that starts from germ cells. Artificial wombs, A.I. computers to raise at least the first generation of people. (Saves a bundle on shipping costs.) Assume that you expect said colony will have no future contact with Earth.
Now your first generation of colonists are a multi-ethnic bunch, but what about names?
Do you set the A.I. with the instructions to match names to terrestrial ethnic heritage, or do you let the A.I. randomly assign names?
Ishmael wrote:bobsandiego wrote:So question for all you very talented SF writers:
Picture a human colony that starts from germ cells. Artificial wombs, A.I. computers to raise at least the first generation of people. (Saves a bundle on shipping costs.) Assume that you expect said colony will have no future contact with Earth.
Now your first generation of colonists are a multi-ethnic bunch, but what about names?
Do you set the A.I. with the instructions to match names to terrestrial ethnic heritage, or do you let the A.I. randomly assign names?
Just as long as the planet is not called EDEN and the first colonists are not called Adam and Eve and they don't have a big argument with the AI over what they're allowed to eat.
bobsandiego wrote:Do you set the A.I. with the instructions
storysinger wrote:bobsandiego wrote:Do you set the A.I. with the instructions
Since it is capable of thinking for itself shouldn't it make the decision to do whatever it wants?
bobsandiego wrote:storysinger wrote:bobsandiego wrote:Do you set the A.I. with the instructions
Since it is capable of thinking for itself shouldn't it make the decision to do whatever it wants?
Why should Intelligence mean free will? I see no contradiction in the idea that a machine may be intelligent and still bound by programming.
(In fact that was the theme of one of my SF under K.D.)
bobsandiego wrote:Arguing against freewill by invoking an agent isn't free to choose an action that is physically impossible strikes me as specious.
Ishmael wrote:bobsandiego wrote:Arguing against freewill by invoking an agent isn't free to choose an action that is physically impossible strikes me as specious.
Of course, if you happen to have Kim Basinger's phone number ... ?
bobsandiego wrote:Ishmael wrote:bobsandiego wrote:Arguing against freewill by invoking an agent isn't free to choose an action that is physically impossible strikes me as specious.
Of course, if you happen to have Kim Basinger's phone number ... ?
El Bimbo Grande? If I had her number i'd give it to you. I hear she's very high maintenance...
And your arguments borders on straw men...
it's like a conflation of free will and wish fulfillment.
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