On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:57:24PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:29:08PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The computer is not a person. > > There there, havelock.liw.fi, don't listen to the *mean* man who > says you're not a person. You are too a person! Tell you what, > it's a magical Internet, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! Hey, no one's racist here. Just write some software that passes the Turing test, and teach it enough to contribute in non-mindless tasks or at least troll a funny way, and I bet folks like the Debian crowd will have no problems taking it for a kind of a person. "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog." With no sentience, though, sorry... a tool's a tool. So we're not racists, sexists or speciesists, but still mindists. -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices.
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