The right would be honoured as long as a machine has as much ability to suicide as the average adult human.
Now we’re getting somewhere. I’m seeking precision in exactly what you are proposing, and your use of “average” in terms of a right is confusing to me. I generally think of rights as individual, applying to all entities, not as aggregate, and satisfied if the median member has the right.
Are you saying that you believe that as long as any one machine has the ability to suicide equivalent to the average adult human, this is satisfied? Now all we need to do is to define “suicide” (note: this may be more difficult than even the previous confusion).
your use of “average” in terms of a right is confusing to me
I can’t see, what’s so confusing. Let’s say, that we have racial segregation in country, and we are declaring that black people should have access to all places, to which white people have access. Does it mean we want black people to have access to only those places accessible to the weakest humans (2-year-old whites and white wheelchair users). No. We want black people to have access to where normal white people have access.
Are you saying that you believe that as long as any one machine has the ability to suicide equivalent to the average adult human, this is satisfied?
Another possible problem that can happen, is that the ability of adult humans to suicide would be reduced and reduced. That is very possible. And we should prevent it. The best way to start with—to accept ethic, where the right to die is a value as important as the right to live.
Now all we need to do is to define “suicide” (note: this may be more difficult than even the previous confusion).
Yes. This seems very difficult. As shminux wrote in the first comment, we don’t have a good handle now to decide if a computer crash is a suicide.
Now we’re getting somewhere. I’m seeking precision in exactly what you are proposing, and your use of “average” in terms of a right is confusing to me. I generally think of rights as individual, applying to all entities, not as aggregate, and satisfied if the median member has the right.
Are you saying that you believe that as long as any one machine has the ability to suicide equivalent to the average adult human, this is satisfied? Now all we need to do is to define “suicide” (note: this may be more difficult than even the previous confusion).
I can’t see, what’s so confusing. Let’s say, that we have racial segregation in country, and we are declaring that black people should have access to all places, to which white people have access. Does it mean we want black people to have access to only those places accessible to the weakest humans (2-year-old whites and white wheelchair users). No. We want black people to have access to where normal white people have access.
Another possible problem that can happen, is that the ability of adult humans to suicide would be reduced and reduced. That is very possible. And we should prevent it. The best way to start with—to accept ethic, where the right to die is a value as important as the right to live.
Yes. This seems very difficult. As shminux wrote in the first comment, we don’t have a good handle now to decide if a computer crash is a suicide.