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

[Chuckk Hubbard]

This reminds me of Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage".

On 10/1/06, Yves Degoyon <ydegoyon at free.fr> wrote:
>
> 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. He was placed on
> probation and required to undergo hormone therapy.
>
> Turing died after eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954, sixteen days
> short of his 42nd birthday. His death is regarded by most as an act of
> 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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