8.0 Day in the Library (Spamlogs)
Oct. 17th, 2011 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no_fastolfe[Private to Sherlock]
At your convenience. I will understand if the way is impassable, however. I found myself among a wetland on my way this morning.
Library Spams]
[Vasilia is in the library, shelving books and generally getting the lay of the stacks. When she sees something out of place she goes for it-- surgical, putting it back in order as if she blames it for being out. Patterns, she's always been good at patterns.]
[OOC: Sorry about the lateness, Nemo!]
At your convenience. I will understand if the way is impassable, however. I found myself among a wetland on my way this morning.
Library Spams]
[Vasilia is in the library, shelving books and generally getting the lay of the stacks. When she sees something out of place she goes for it-- surgical, putting it back in order as if she blames it for being out. Patterns, she's always been good at patterns.]
[OOC: Sorry about the lateness, Nemo!]
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Date: 2011-10-23 04:22 pm (UTC)You can hurt an Ascenion robot-- if you will pardon my clumsy analog-- 'hurt' them by leading them into conflict, in which they cannot obey their guiding Laws. You can, if you know how, order even an advanced robot with high self-preservation potential to destroy itself.
And yet if you do that you do not deserve access to robots! If they lack the range of responses of humanity than it is also humanity's responsibility to provide the structure they need. Not to change them-- but to change their operating environment. You would not set a harvesting combine in the ocean and expect it to work. No: you place it on an agricultural plot and do not ask it to choose if it would like to swim instead.
I think the question I would ask-- in much shorter terms-- is this: does a sapient being deserve, by default, 'Free Will?'
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Date: 2011-10-23 10:55 pm (UTC)Well, it sounds as though your people found success in this area. And really, 'free will' of humanity has its own limits. We've laws, pressures, doubt. We're programmed in our own way.
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Date: 2011-10-23 11:24 pm (UTC)If you still wish to learn Ascenion programming, it will be a rather more in-depth lesson. But you know the basic foundations of it, the theory now.