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What is the socio-economic impact of technology? Now? Future?
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David I believe the flaw in your theory is assuming there are fair answers to all questions. Your comment "
If people would rather be dead than alive, clearly they have a right to commit suicide - to deny them that is to prolong their suffering and is plain immoral.
" Is just one of many examples.
This statement is your opinion. One I happen to agree with, by the way, though that is besides the point. Fact is that there are tens of thousands of people, probably more like hundreds of thousands who believe, truly believe, that a person does not have the right to terminate their life. There is no middle ground here. No clever solution that any person or any A.I. can create.
These types of questions are the basis of the human condition. Life is not black and white. And as long as there are differences of opinion, there are going to be problems.
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The trouble with people today and in the past is that most of them have not thought through their beliefs properly, but A.I. will help ensure that they do, and until they have done so, their opinions will not carry as much weight as those who have. Most people are stuffed full of contradictory beliefs and have severe hypocrisy issues that need to be sorted out before they can be taken seriously. A.I. will be able to force them to the point where all the defects in their model of reality become clear to them, and they'll be forced to shift position on many issues.
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