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salvelinus

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Can software be morally "bad"
« Reply #30 on: April 15, 2005, 03:00:35 PM »
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What about Artificial Intelligences with emergent behavior?  Assuming they do something that we would classify as bad/immoral, would that make the software immoral?

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Can software be morally "bad"
« Reply #31 on: April 15, 2005, 03:01:48 PM »
Sky Net was evil, it was just misunderstood :)

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Can software be morally "bad"
« Reply #32 on: April 15, 2005, 05:04:22 PM »
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People have morals; 'things' (even esoteric/abstract 'things' like software) don't, unless you subscribe to the notion that morals possess a distinct and separate existence

I don't subscribe to that notion, but this is pretty much my opinion