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		<title>By: Spudd86</title>
		<link>http://www.atomic-robo.com/2008/08/19/crusade-20/comment-page-1/#comment-6432</link>
		<dc:creator>Spudd86</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reduction in ignorance fixes most of these problems... and it&#039;s awfully hard to see how the technologies mentioned could be commonplace without people having some idea about what they can and cannot do. 
 
And like with most tech today the longer it&#039;s around the fewer people believe silly things about it. Most people who have grown up with ubiquitous computers and the internet are aware that you can&#039;t hack into a pc that&#039;s turned off, that you can&#039;t see them through the screen, etc.  
 
And misconfigured routers DO allow people access to your files without your consent (and misconfigured routers are VERY common) 
 
In otherwords the longer and more common something is the less common silly luddite belifes about it become. 
 
(Cell phones and cancer, if you really belived your phone could give you cancer would you keep using it?) </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reduction in ignorance fixes most of these problems&#8230; and it&#039;s awfully hard to see how the technologies mentioned could be commonplace without people having some idea about what they can and cannot do. </p>
<p>And like with most tech today the longer it&#039;s around the fewer people believe silly things about it. Most people who have grown up with ubiquitous computers and the internet are aware that you can&#039;t hack into a pc that&#039;s turned off, that you can&#039;t see them through the screen, etc.  </p>
<p>And misconfigured routers DO allow people access to your files without your consent (and misconfigured routers are VERY common) </p>
<p>In otherwords the longer and more common something is the less common silly luddite belifes about it become. </p>
<p>(Cell phones and cancer, if you really belived your phone could give you cancer would you keep using it?)</p>
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		<title>By: Spudd86</title>
		<link>http://www.atomic-robo.com/2008/08/19/crusade-20/comment-page-1/#comment-11390</link>
		<dc:creator>Spudd86</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reduction in ignorance fixes most of these problems... and it&#039;s awfully hard to see how the technologies mentioned could be commonplace without people having some idea about what they can and cannot do. 
 
And like with most tech today the longer it&#039;s around the fewer people believe silly things about it. Most people who have grown up with ubiquitous computers and the internet are aware that you can&#039;t hack into a pc that&#039;s turned off, that you can&#039;t see them through the screen, etc.  
 
And misconfigured routers DO allow people access to your files without your consent (and misconfigured routers are VERY common) 
 
In otherwords the longer and more common something is the less common silly luddite belifes about it become. 
 
(Cell phones and cancer, if you really belived your phone could give you cancer would you keep using it?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reduction in ignorance fixes most of these problems&#8230; and it&#039;s awfully hard to see how the technologies mentioned could be commonplace without people having some idea about what they can and cannot do. </p>
<p>And like with most tech today the longer it&#039;s around the fewer people believe silly things about it. Most people who have grown up with ubiquitous computers and the internet are aware that you can&#039;t hack into a pc that&#039;s turned off, that you can&#039;t see them through the screen, etc.  </p>
<p>And misconfigured routers DO allow people access to your files without your consent (and misconfigured routers are VERY common) </p>
<p>In otherwords the longer and more common something is the less common silly luddite belifes about it become. </p>
<p>(Cell phones and cancer, if you really belived your phone could give you cancer would you keep using it?)</p>
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		<title>By: admmck81</title>
		<link>http://www.atomic-robo.com/2008/08/19/crusade-20/comment-page-1/#comment-5934</link>
		<dc:creator>admmck81</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you still don&#039;t get it. Humans are the racists. Humans are the ones that act out of blind hatred. Humans will lash out at robots. Robots will have no choice but to defend themselves. Humans will view this as an uprising. You don&#039;t comprehend human nature, yet you are human, are you not? You are talking about people that think the government is always conspiring. That there are UFO cover-ups. That our wireless routers and phones allow access to us without our consent. Imagine what those people will think when we have robots, with the capability of connecting their brains or other aspects of their structure to the internet.   </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you still don&#039;t get it. Humans are the racists. Humans are the ones that act out of blind hatred. Humans will lash out at robots. Robots will have no choice but to defend themselves. Humans will view this as an uprising. You don&#039;t comprehend human nature, yet you are human, are you not? You are talking about people that think the government is always conspiring. That there are UFO cover-ups. That our wireless routers and phones allow access to us without our consent. Imagine what those people will think when we have robots, with the capability of connecting their brains or other aspects of their structure to the internet.</p>
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		<title>By: admmck81</title>
		<link>http://www.atomic-robo.com/2008/08/19/crusade-20/comment-page-1/#comment-11389</link>
		<dc:creator>admmck81</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you still don&#039;t get it. Humans are the racists. Humans are the ones that act out of blind hatred. Humans will lash out at robots. Robots will have no choice but to defend themselves. Humans will view this as an uprising. You don&#039;t comprehend human nature, yet you are human, are you not? You are talking about people that think the government is always conspiring. That there are UFO cover-ups. That our wireless routers and phones allow access to us without our consent. Imagine what those people will think when we have robots, with the capability of connecting their brains or other aspects of their structure to the internet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you still don&#039;t get it. Humans are the racists. Humans are the ones that act out of blind hatred. Humans will lash out at robots. Robots will have no choice but to defend themselves. Humans will view this as an uprising. You don&#039;t comprehend human nature, yet you are human, are you not? You are talking about people that think the government is always conspiring. That there are UFO cover-ups. That our wireless routers and phones allow access to us without our consent. Imagine what those people will think when we have robots, with the capability of connecting their brains or other aspects of their structure to the internet.</p>
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		<title>By: bclevinger</title>
		<link>http://www.atomic-robo.com/2008/08/19/crusade-20/comment-page-1/#comment-5932</link>
		<dc:creator>bclevinger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No one&#039;s denying racism exists. But what you&#039;re proposing is that if there are racists, then the subjects of racism will overthrow everything. That&#039;s obviously not how things work. Education has done far more to combat racism than violence. There&#039;s no reason to assume this will change.   
   
Sure, it won&#039;t be a perfect paradise. There will be conflict, especially in the beginning. Some people won&#039;t like robots and some robots won&#039;t like people. The world won&#039;t explode because of it for the same reason everyone in the world isn&#039;t dead right now even though some people hate some other people.   
   
&lt;i&gt;&quot;If we create an artificial intelligence, and give it emotions, it will act the same way we do.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;   
   
This isn&#039;t necessarily true. Human emotional responses stem from bililons of years of evolution. A great deal of our emotional and intellectual responses are based on mistrust of &quot;others&quot; and a desire to horde resources because that kind of behavior made it easier to survive in pre-history. Robotic emotion wouldn&#039;t have that evolutionary burden. It&#039;s pretty much impossible to gauge what influence that would have on their emotional responses. But my guess is that without the negative aspects the kind of tribal-thinking that leads to blind jingoism and war, robots with emotions would, on the whole, be fairly mellow.   
   
&lt;i&gt;&quot;Not to mention, they will have the intelligence to improve themselves, which we do not.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;   
  
Again, not necessarily. We&#039;re already beginning to incorporate technology into our bodies. At this stage the cost and relatively primitive nature of the tech limits its application. These technologies will one day be used to not merely bring disadvantaged individuals closer to a  &quot;normal&quot; life as they do today, but to boost human capability. There is no reason to believe that intelligence would not be included, especially if we&#039;re assuming a world where we&#039;ve figured out &quot;intelligence&quot; enough to manufacture it.   
   
Ultimately, the functional difference between &quot;human&quot; and &quot;robot&quot; may be incredibly minor from a cultural perspective. Historically, we&#039;ve had a very hard time waging war with members of our own cultures. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one&#39;s denying racism exists. But what you&#39;re proposing is that if there are racists, then the subjects of racism will overthrow everything. That&#39;s obviously not how things work. Education has done far more to combat racism than violence. There&#39;s no reason to assume this will change.   </p>
<p>Sure, it won&#39;t be a perfect paradise. There will be conflict, especially in the beginning. Some people won&#39;t like robots and some robots won&#39;t like people. The world won&#39;t explode because of it for the same reason everyone in the world isn&#39;t dead right now even though some people hate some other people.   </p>
<p><i>&quot;If we create an artificial intelligence, and give it emotions, it will act the same way we do.&quot;</i>   </p>
<p>This isn&#39;t necessarily true. Human emotional responses stem from bililons of years of evolution. A great deal of our emotional and intellectual responses are based on mistrust of &quot;others&quot; and a desire to horde resources because that kind of behavior made it easier to survive in pre-history. Robotic emotion wouldn&#39;t have that evolutionary burden. It&#39;s pretty much impossible to gauge what influence that would have on their emotional responses. But my guess is that without the negative aspects the kind of tribal-thinking that leads to blind jingoism and war, robots with emotions would, on the whole, be fairly mellow.   </p>
<p><i>&quot;Not to mention, they will have the intelligence to improve themselves, which we do not.&quot;</i>   </p>
<p>Again, not necessarily. We&#39;re already beginning to incorporate technology into our bodies. At this stage the cost and relatively primitive nature of the tech limits its application. These technologies will one day be used to not merely bring disadvantaged individuals closer to a  &quot;normal&quot; life as they do today, but to boost human capability. There is no reason to believe that intelligence would not be included, especially if we&#39;re assuming a world where we&#39;ve figured out &quot;intelligence&quot; enough to manufacture it.   </p>
<p>Ultimately, the functional difference between &quot;human&quot; and &quot;robot&quot; may be incredibly minor from a cultural perspective. Historically, we&#39;ve had a very hard time waging war with members of our own cultures.</p>
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