X-Message-Number: 15951 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: AI enforcing "Morals" Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:48:47 +0100 I think the concept of AI enforcing "Morals" is very dangerous, because morals can be all things to all men. The National Socialist Party was on a moral idealistic utopian quest to rid humanity of all evils by eugenics. Its leader said the project would take about 600 years after which time there would be no cripples, deformed sick people only healthy super-beings. Based on flawed science, this utopian ideal became the exact opposite as soon as it was applied by compulsion, starting with the extermination of one badly deformed baby on their leader's personal orders and ending with attempts at the extermination of entire groups of humans. In their "debate" on the issue, people throughout the world killed each other in millions. I can email a pdf file of a transcript of a recent television programme where these points were made. It is 94K long, and requires Adobe Acrobat reader to read it. Adobe Acrobat reader is available free from http://www.adobe.com -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other projects: http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt http://www.autopsychoice.com - should you be able to chose autopsy? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15951