the comment you wrote adds no value
if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all
our ethics should lead one to believe that any intelligent entity, carbon or silicon based, deserves basic rights
if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all
our ethics should lead one to believe that any intelligent entity, carbon or silicon based, deserves basic rights
To think that it is "just a program" could be like saying we are just machines without determination. This view may well become "racist" or "bigotry"
Individual ethics will determine the societal ethics that get codified into law. I have a hard time seeing how giving intelligent enough machines won't happen based on our existing ethics, laws, and history therein
> It makes even less sense to people who know what a computer program is.
I write code professionally and my beliefs are not what you claim them to be. Perhaps your opinion is the minority opinion? You should certainly not be claiming it as the de facto belief among programmers