Robots Part II: Implications

After some time spent thinking about the issue, I've decided to rant a bit about this. (For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, scroll down and read the previous post.) I've decided that this whole robot situation is a horrible idea.

"But, Boughnaa! I want a robot slave to do my bidding and play with my naughty bits on command!"

Well, dear sexual deviant, I want one too, but I don't think anyone deserves one until we can work a few issues out.

For starters, let's perfect human rights before we have to deal with the philosophy of machine's rights.

"But, Boughnaa! Machines don't have rights!"

Well, no, they don't... not yet. But they will, if actual personalities could be developed as the previously posted article suggests. After all, we regard our pets as property, but our pets have rights-- they are living creatures, capable of feeling pain. When machines are given the ability to converse intellegently, to laugh, to love... they will have been given the greatest gift we have to give.

They'll also be cursed with our emotional baggage.

Picture it-- a robot with emotional problems! Separation anxiety! When a machine can love, a machine can feel, and when that time comes we're going to have a philosophical crisis on our hands, and we're bloody well going to have to resolve it quickly-- I know we've all seen the Matrix and the Terminator.

There's just one problem with those movies-- they aren't very realistic.

The machines will process data and communicate billions of times faster than humans can. And I promise you that if all this nonsense comes about... we're going to lose.

So let's wrap up our baggage before we try to play God with robots. Please?