[PD] ethics of the machine (was Pd *is* a programming language!)

[Yves Degoyon]

haha,

what a joke, cyborg old-school,
have pleasure with a machine,
i hope you will

sevy

Arturo Sinclair wrote:

> Not quite sure where this is heading. Machines are the extensions of 
> man (think of robots as our next evolutionary stage) and as such 
> deserve respect in my opinion. As designers of software (the 
> soft-machines) or hardware we bear responsibility. Since PD in many 
> cases is used to send control messages to "machines" and the resulting 
> actions might appear to be autonomous (as products of neural logic for 
> example) ethical questions arise as to the final results or 
> consequences. So, respect for the object of our creation reflects or 
> manifests who we are.
>
> respect-fully,
>
> arturo
>
> On Sep 30, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Yves Degoyon wrote:
>
>> In 1952, Turing was convicted of "acts of gross indecency" after 
>> admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester>. He was placed on probation 
>> and required to undergo hormone therapy 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_therapy>.
>>
>> Turing died after eating an apple laced with cyanide 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide> in 1954, sixteen days short of 
>> his 42nd birthday. His death is regarded by most as an act of suicide 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide>.
>>
>> respect plants and animals, not machines!
>>
>> ciao,
>> sevy
>>
>> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, chris clepper wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/29/06, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What? The internet is not a data store.
>>>>
>>>> It's the catalog for the store.
>>>
>>>
>>> Neither.
>>>
>>> It's not directly a data store, because any kinds of things lie 
>>> between the data stores of the internet, and the user... if there is 
>>> even a data store. Often the servers are used for computations 
>>> rather than storage.
>>>
>>> A catalog for a data store is itself a data store.
>>>
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