Rats!
Dead rats!
I think we should found PETAI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligences. Hey, think about it: Some very complex and realistic AI routines are written for games nowadays. By any definition, they can observe, plan, and react to stimuli at least as well as any rodent. How many times are these poor, innocent AIs killed in a single gaming session? We develop artificial beings for the exclusive purpose of callously killing them -- then hitting the reset button to resurrect them and do it again. And again and again! It's an abuse of our moral responsibility to the AIs, I tell you! It's an OUTRAGE!
WE ARE PETAI AND WE'RE MAD AS HELL!!!1
(There are grants and corporate hush-money in this, I know it. Who's with me?)
Battlefield 3 isn’t The Sims; no matter how you decide on approaching the game, a ton of virtual people are going to die gory virtual deaths. That doesn’t faze the German arm of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, though. No, what really grinds PETA’s gears is a scene in the game in which a rat is stabbed and then tossed into a trashcan, and the organization has written a press release to let the world know of its outrage. OUTRAGE!
I think we should found PETAI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Artificial Intelligences. Hey, think about it: Some very complex and realistic AI routines are written for games nowadays. By any definition, they can observe, plan, and react to stimuli at least as well as any rodent. How many times are these poor, innocent AIs killed in a single gaming session? We develop artificial beings for the exclusive purpose of callously killing them -- then hitting the reset button to resurrect them and do it again. And again and again! It's an abuse of our moral responsibility to the AIs, I tell you! It's an OUTRAGE!
WE ARE PETAI AND WE'RE MAD AS HELL!!!1
(There are grants and corporate hush-money in this, I know it. Who's with me?)
posted by Jar(egg)head at 16:58
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I'm not entirely sure that the human race isn't some other races AI program complete with Sims type stuff and some really good shoot'um up's as well. Our new organization may actually be protecting ourselves... huh?? Lost my train of thought for a second, must have been a reset. Please reset me from this boring desk job!! Well no, I'd rather not be the one being tortured by North Korean's, but feel free to put me in a US Marine unit, at least there you can take your torture out on some other AI unit. I'll take the BFG and a pack of grenades please. Yes Sir, the really big ones.
So, will it be the Red Pill, or the Blue one?
I took the green pill and I ended up on this miserable excuse for a planet. No more pills for me, thanks.
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