Questions Only V: Where's The Beef?
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What made Asimov such a prolific writer?
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Do you think that he himself was possibly a humaniform robot, like Daneel?
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Do you think robots will soon be able to write original stories and novels that we will enjoy?
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Is there any reason why they couldn't?
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What are the consequences of their creativity surpassing that of humans?
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Too much quality entertainment for one person to keep up with?
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Is it possible that humans would cease being creative if their creations couldn't compete with those of robots?
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Is it possible for truly creative people to stop being creative?
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Would people listen to human-generated music if it were inferior to robot-generated music?
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Do people listen to live acoustic guitars instead of studio-produced synthesizer music?
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How soon until it become legal to marry a robot?
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If Asimov had lived, do you think he would have written "Robot Marriage" as a follow up to "Robot Dreams" and "Robot Visions?"
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Who knows what he would have written had he not died at such a (relatively) young age?
In the future, if you married a sentient artificial life form, should you have the right to alter its program on occasion (e.g., "Computer. Make Sally more outgoing")?
In the future, if you married a sentient artificial life form, should you have the right to alter its program on occasion (e.g., "Computer. Make Sally more outgoing")?
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Wouldn't a sentient artificial intelligence have the same privacy and self-determination rights as a meat person?
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If you had to guess, how many years from now will we legally grant robots the same rights as meat people?
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Will we grant them or will the robots take them by force?
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Will the only surviving humans (or nations) be those who are able to wrest control of the robots?
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Will we survive by becoming the robots?
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All these unintended negative consequences of technological advancement.... do they explain the Fermi Paradox?
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Don't you think lack of technology is a more likely explanation?
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Are you suggesting that the vast majority of life in the universe never evolves to the point of technological advancement?
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Doesn't that make sense, seeing that the vast majority of life on Earth has been single celled, and the vast majority of multi-celled life on Earth has not been technological?
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So if you believe that evolution usually has a "ceiling", then how is it that on Earth we were able to break the ceiling?
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But does evolution proceed toward some goal that involves intelligence and technology or does it just bumble around crazily like the Keystone Cops in response to random stimuli?
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Does it make me an optimist to believe that evolution has a direction and (while not linear) drives life toward greater complexity and intelligence?