However what made me a bit confused in the grandparent post is the stress on the physical ability to harm people. As I see it, anything that can affect the physical world has the ability to harm people. So what’s special about, say, robot-wars bots?
Oh, ok. I see your point there.
Hey, look what’s in the news today. I have a feeling you underappreciate the sophistication of industrial robots.
I probably do, but I still think it’s worth emphasizing the particular properties of particular algorithms rather than letting people form models in their heads that say Certain Programs Are Magic And Will Do Magic Things.
Oh, ok. I see your point there.
I probably do, but I still think it’s worth emphasizing the particular properties of particular algorithms rather than letting people form models in their heads that say Certain Programs Are Magic And Will Do Magic Things.
looks to me like a straightforward consequence of the Clarke’s Third Law :-)
As an aside, I don’t expect attempts to let or not let people form models in their heads to be successful :-/