RE: How is Yahweh not immoral?
November 23, 2012 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2012 at 4:46 pm by Ryantology.)
(November 23, 2012 at 4:06 pm)Drich Wrote: If it is 'artificial' then it is not intelligent. It is simply able to mimic intellegence. I believe the term you are looking for is synthetic intellegence.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_intelligence AI is an out dated 90's term.)
If an AI (which, is in, fact not an obsolete term at all) exhibits intelligence and sentience completely indistinguishable from 'natural' intelligence, then there is no moral ground on which to say that one intelligence is more legitimate than the other.
Though, since Christians distrust and belittle human intelligence at every opportunity, I understand your position on this matter.
Quote:That said, If you were involved in this process in anyother way besides magic-ing a synthetic intellegence into existance then I would contend that you and your philosphers would be wrong. For if you would have written the endless code that would have sustained this conscousness. In effect you have control and responsiablity over that being. What if your program created real cylons or Sky Net? Do you not think you would be held responsiable by the rest of us? What if the cylons or sky net you created followed the Sci-fi dipictions of them and tried to take over humanity, would you just roll over and 'respect' their intellegent desision to destroy humanity, or would you judge this 'creation' to be 'sinful?' and do your part to stop them?
This is a meaningless scenario in regards to this argument. Humans pose no threat to an allegedly all-powerful being, and God is never on record fearing destruction at our hands. I would not 'roll over' and respect an AI's decision to obliterate all life on earth.
If I created an AI, I would, however, respect its decision to, say, not worship its creator, because unlike God, I am not a jealous and immature bitch.
