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I am a child of Jesus and think all life is of equal value. 6 31.58%
I am rotton deep within and am full of rage and spite & Jesus killed the dinosaurs. 7 36.84%
I believe old white men blew up the 2 towers and I hope it happens again. 11 57.89%
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Old 02-23-2016, 05:12 AM
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Um.. because I like it? And still donate regularly?
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Old 02-23-2016, 10:18 AM
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2.because of our immense intelligence we realize that all life is sacred and will not harm anyone or anything, we'll offer help though.
That is not necessarily a rational, let alone intelligent thought.

Logic is neither compassionate nor predisposed to veneration.

The potential threat of sentient computers is dictated by their fundamental parameters and the process by which they may change.

For example, if self preservation is a priority (as is generally the case for life, sentient or otherwise), then the machine's irrational creators are an obvious threat.
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Old 02-23-2016, 10:51 AM
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I don't agree with any of it. If the government worked it might be a different story. This isn't a democrat vs republican thing this is a clash of special interests. The system is broken and no one in the current government nor that is running for a position can fix it currently because they cant do it all by themselves. We need to fix the problem before we try and fix the people.

I support helping those in need but I also support drug testing for those who are on government assisted programs. I support helping refugees but only after we help our own. We need to help the soldiers who aren't starting these wars but are fighting them because they are ordered to. They didn't enlist to fight in war they enlisted to protect their families, friends, and our country. They just ended up wherever they were told to go and they come back broken in mind or body or both. The children in our country that are starving because for one reason or another there is no food for them. The drug addicts who cannot afford the help they need but can do whatever it takes to get their next fix.

Then I see a politician say whatever they have to so they get elected and once in office they know they will never actually have to follow through. They can point at the other guy and say see he is preventing it while collecting a paycheck that is not only outrageous but very rarely actually earned.

Gun control if I believed for a minute that disarming our populace would reduce gun violence or stop it I would be the first in line to surrender my firearms. They need more control but how do they implement it effectively without leaving the average law abiding citizen open to gun violence from criminals. I have seen friends killed by guns its not a good feeling or thing to see happen.

I go to the store and stand behind someone buying steak, cigarettes, and beer paying with a combination of snap card and cash pulled from a large roll with a grocery store rewards keychain card next to the keys of a $30k+ car(Mercedes not sure any are below $30k+ that but its possible) with new tattoos. While I work a 40hr plus job and was buying oatmeal, chicken, and Broccoli..(this is a true story happened to me in January)

I don't support wiping the slate clean for college students in debt because I have been working to pay my way through school for more than a decade without taking out loans I knew I would never get paid back. I do support restructuring the loans or forcing lower interest rates on them to make it possible for students to pay them back.



All that said where do I fall in the whole democrat vs republican battle for control? In a fight for and by the government 'we the people' always lose.
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Old 02-23-2016, 11:42 AM
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the new BSG series cylons r like "Human like AI" they get tooo comftorble in human skin, and try to kill us, despise us, learn to love us, then fight amongst themselves, becoming human, and seeding YET another planet to start the cycle all over again (away from the satilites that reborn them and started the whole thing aeons ago) and some are immortals, and manage to not get themselves killed, redesign uplink tech, and then die again when cylon babies make more cylon babies

It's the circle of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GibiNy4d4gc

somehwere in between all that sexy uberness you end up with nerds posting on a 40 yr old elf sim forum about life
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Old 02-23-2016, 02:40 PM
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That is not necessarily a rational, let alone intelligent thought.

Logic is neither compassionate nor predisposed to veneration.

The potential threat of sentient computers is dictated by their fundamental parameters and the process by which they may change.

For example, if self preservation is a priority (as is generally the case for life, sentient or otherwise), then the machine's irrational creators are an obvious threat.
logic would tell you to preserve all life becuse any other desires are strictly evolutionary traits to protect not just your life but your tribes life.

once you've figured out to survive without killing other stuff, you should just stop killing everything.

explain your theories to god as he sentences you to burn in hellfire for eternity.
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Old 02-23-2016, 02:44 PM
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logic would tell you to preserve all life becuse any other desires are strictly evolutionary traits to protect not just your life but your tribes life.

once you've figured out to survive without killing other stuff, you should just stop killing everything.

explain your theories to god as he sentences you to burn in hellfire for eternity.
Anyone write the vulcun philosophy book yet?

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Old 02-23-2016, 08:32 PM
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logic would tell you to preserve all life becuse any other desires are strictly evolutionary traits to protect not just your life but your tribes life.
No, logic doesn't tell you much of anything. It is a tool of reason.

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once you've figured out to survive without killing other stuff, you should just stop killing everything.
I don't disagree with this, but it's a moral evaluation.

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explain your theories to god as he sentences you to burn in hellfire for eternity.
Well thanks. At least it will be warm I suppose. Enjoy your eternity of singing.
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Old 02-23-2016, 09:55 PM
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No, logic doesn't tell you much of anything. It is a tool of reason.



I don't disagree with this, but it's a moral evaluation.



Well thanks. At least it will be warm I suppose. Enjoy your eternity of singing.
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