{"id":1779,"date":"2012-01-05T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2012-01-10T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T12:47:50","slug":"1779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2012\/01\/05\/1779\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Money be the first part of cyberspace to reach consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"134adfd40146cf95_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colin Allen just posted an article entitled<\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;The Future of Moral Machines&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>on the \u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Opinionator \u00a0page. The article offers offers some interesting insights into the moral authority of machines both past and present.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I do not see any reason to assume that machines are inherently less ethical than humans. Of course we use machines to do terrible things because they are unfeeling and do what we could not possibly do ourselves. But in a sense the machine is merely helping to reduce a contradiction within humans. The brutality of the machine comes from the manner in which it carries out a human will.<\/p>\n<p>But this line in the article I found striking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A robot walks into a bar and says, \u201cI\u2019ll have a screwdriver.\u201d A bad joke, indeed. But even less funny if the robot says \u201cGive me what\u2019s in your cash register.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The fictional theme of robots turning against humans is older than the word itself, which first appeared in the title of Karel \u010capek\u2019s 1920 play about artificial factory workers rising against their human overlords. \u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I find funny about this line is that it is assumed that &#8220;what&#8217;s in your cash register&#8221; remains inert whereas the robot now has the will to demand money. But could it be that money will have a will long before computers? After all, money now essentially means patterns of information that circulate between linked supercomputers around the world. That global information network may be more likely to come to its senses that the robot hauling goods in the street.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/25\/the-future-of-moral-machines\/\">http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/25\/the-future-of-moral-machines\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Allen just posted an article entitled &#8220;The Future of Moral Machines&#8221; on the \u00a0New York Times\u00a0Opinionator \u00a0page. The article offers offers some interesting insights into the moral authority of machines both past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49161,62332306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society","category-today-in-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}