Do you agree that Technology is going too far?

[Shamar]

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If they invent a psychotic AI, they will probably put it in charge of nuclear defense.

Yes, I am a cynic.

 

[tree]

 

[the_tortoise]

makes me think of Data from Star Trek TNG

 

[Outsider]

She looks like Jennifer Lawrence.

As far as technology goes, I have concerns about some areas, like genetic engineering. Others, like WMD, scare the pants off me. I don't want there to be Nukes or Weaponized Viruses, etc. But this particular area, robotics AI, doesn't bother or scare me for some reason. I guess I don't see our level of technology now or for the foreseeable future being able to create a self aware machine. And I doubt machines of themselves will ever be able to cross the line into true consciousness.

I'm for genetic engineering, it will help cure a lot of genetic conditions. Genetic engineering was wrongly identified with eugenics due to a gross misunderstanding of genetics on the part of medical ethicists
. As for WMD, this staff has been around for many decades, I don't think anyone would use it for the fear of retaliation. This is the reason why neither Americans nor Russians nuked each other during the Cold War.

 

[Outsider]

makes me think of Data from Star Trek TNG

Data is one of my favorite sci-fi characters. Until recently I thought I saw all TNG episodes. But recently, when I was watching one of the episodes again, I heard Data saying that once he had sex with a woman. I don't remember watching anything of this sort.

 

[Shevek]

I'm for genetic engineering, it will help cure a lot of genetic conditions. Genetic engineering was wrongly identified with eugenics due to a gross misunderstanding of genetics on the part of medical ethicists
. As for WMD, this staff has been around for many decades, I don't think anyone would use it for the fear of retaliation. This is the reason why neither Americans nor Russians nuked each other during the Cold War.

No rational person would start a nuclear war, but not everyone is rational. There are some who think they know a way to avoid retaliation, some who never think very far ahead, and the ever-greater possibility of events cascading, with faulty or ill-designed automation going out of control. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, only a hunch by Vasili Arkhipov derailed the disaster.

 

[tree]

Data is one of my favorite sci-fi characters. Until recently I thought I saw all TNG episodes. But recently, when I was watching one of the episodes again, I heard Data saying that once he had sex with a woman. I don't remember watching anything of this sort.

I remember him assuring Tasha Yar
that he was "fully functional."

Spoiler

 

[the_tortoise]

Data is one of my favorite sci-fi characters.

Mine too.

Until recently I thought I saw all TNG episodes. But recently, when I was watching one of the episodes again, I heard Data saying that once he had sex with a woman. I don't remember watching anything of this sort.

They didn't show any of the sexual intimacy. I was confused by that as well, until I rewatched all of them.

@tree's post I somehow missed - that should tell you

 

[Shevek]

Mine too.

They didn't show any of the sexual intimacy. I was confused by that as well, until I rewatched all of them.

@tree's post I somehow missed - that should tell you

Has fiction become indistinguishable from technology?

 

[Crossbreed]

...I believe it was the one where...

(You could just give the season & episode number...

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[the_tortoise]

(You could just give the season & episode number...

)

that's why i edited; realized i was already ruining it. (am so bad at subtly and saying things without saying them i really should not try!)

 

[Shamar]

Has fiction become indistinguishable from technology?

Fiction seems to have become indistinguishable from reality, at least for far too many people. In another forum, I see many, many questions asking about fictional things as if they actually existed (Why don't we just make things using replicators like in Star Trek and solve world hunger and shortages). Look at how many people think that actors are the actual character they portray.

 

[Aspergers_Aspie]

I won't be travelling abroad as they want to finger print and photograph people.
I won't be getting a digital id. And I always sign pettions against facial recognition and digital IDs. I also wear only anti facial recognition clothing outside

 

[Outsider]

I remember him assuring Tasha Yar
that he was "fully functional."

Spoiler

It appears there is a bit more to it.
"n the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Measure of a Man" (Season 2, Episode 9), Data explicitly states that he had been intimate with a woman. He makes this admission during a legal hearing to determine if he is sentient and has rights.
During the hearing, Captain Picard presents a holographic portrait of Lieutenant Tasha Yar, who had been killed in the previous season. The judge asks why Data, who has no emotions, keeps a portrait of a deceased crewmate. Data, after some hesitation and with Picard's encouragement, explains, "She was special to me, sir. We were... intimate"." Generated by AI

 

[Crossbreed]

Fiction seems to have become indistinguishable from reality, at least for far too many people. In another forum, I see many, many questions asking about fictional things as if they actually existed (Why don't we just make things using replicators like in Star Trek and solve world hunger and shortages)...

It's All Real, Galaxy Quest (1999)​