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Re: New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India

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Post by hodwik » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 2:36 PM UTC

littletimmy wrote: post #70

hodwik wrote: post #67

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One of them we know to be sentient. We can't be so sure about lions. I'm not talking about higher-order intelligence, I'm talking about sentience -- the ability to experience. It is rather simple now to find a program that would defeat the original formulation for a Turing test, but no one would describe them as having consciousness. However, I believe it very possible that humans are doing much the same thing with a…

I don't think sentience should be a criteria for value of life. Even if a lion isn't sentient, so what? This speciest emphasis on human-like features as criterion for value shouldn't be dominant in the first place.

If sentience isn't the requirement, where do we draw the line on AI? Do we have to treat dead things nicely?

Re: New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India

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Post by littletimmy » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

hodwik wrote: post #71

littletimmy wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think sentience should be a criteria for value of life. Even if a lion isn't sentient, so what? This speciest emphasis on human-like features as criterion for value shouldn't be dominant in the first place.

If sentience isn't the requirement, where do we draw the line on AI? Do we have to treat dead things nicely?

We can take a global macro view when it comes to animals. Why should their lives be as important as people's?

Ability to feel pain?

Scarcity? [In the sense that there are 7 billion people and only 5000 tigers, so we should focus on saving the tiger?]

Re: New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India

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Post by vadym909 » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

anovikov wrote: post #68

vadym909 wrote: post #59

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1. High Govt regulation, permission, licensing, red tape, labor laws, politics 2. Irregular power and water supply 3. Poor infrastructure/Logistics- Roads, Bridges, Rails, Ports

Why do you think any other industry except manufacturing will be better off unless these are fixed?

They won't. Software oddly, managed to avoid dealing much with the Govt because no one understood it, customers were overseas, it brought in much needed foreign exchange. Software succeeded in spite of all this.