Comments on: The ACLU’s Future Clients: ROBOTS! http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:01:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Give Me a Freaking BREAK… Robot Rights? at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source. http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60369 Give Me a Freaking BREAK… Robot Rights? at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source. Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:12:18 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60369 [...] [UPDATE] 1:17pm- Stop the ACLU weighs in with: American Cyborg Liberties Union? This has got to be a joke right? With as many “rights” as the ACLU has invented over the last few decades, is this really out of the realm of possibility? [...] [...] [UPDATE] 1:17pm- Stop the ACLU weighs in with: American Cyborg Liberties Union? This has got to be a joke right? With as many “rights” as the ACLU has invented over the last few decades, is this really out of the realm of possibility? [...]

]]> By: Thinkin’bout Stuff » Blog Archive » Dateline: 2060 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60370 Thinkin’bout Stuff » Blog Archive » Dateline: 2060 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:12:01 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60370 [...] When, during manufacturing, does a potential robot actually become a robot and have rights? How late in the process can we legally abort the assembly and toss the parts in a recycle bin? Does “life” begin at concept? Design? Assembly? Testing? Post-production? The ACLU would clearly need to weigh in on this critical issue. [...] [...] When, during manufacturing, does a potential robot actually become a robot and have rights? How late in the process can we legally abort the assembly and toss the parts in a recycle bin? Does “life” begin at concept? Design? Assembly? Testing? Post-production? The ACLU would clearly need to weigh in on this critical issue. [...]

]]> By: Wake up America&gt; http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60371 Wake up America&gt; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:32:59 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60371 <strong>Give Me a Freaking BREAK... Robot Rights?</strong> How utterly ludicrous this whole concept is. Not to mention incredibly creepy. Ya'll are just freaking me out now!!!!! Give Me a Freaking BREAK… Robot Rights?

How utterly ludicrous this whole concept is. Not to mention incredibly creepy. Ya’ll are just freaking me out now!!!!!

]]> By: apostle http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60372 apostle Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:14:25 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60372 Robots with self-awareness, at least as humans have, will never happen. Scientists still struggle to figure out our complexity so modeling it at this point seems fruitless. Robots with self-awareness, at least as humans have, will never happen. Scientists still struggle to figure out our complexity so modeling it at this point seems fruitless.

]]> By: Doug Ross @ Journal http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60373 Doug Ross @ Journal Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:06:06 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60373 <strong>Bonaduce vs. Connor, part II</strong> In case you're one of the four folks who haven't seen it on YouTube, 9/11 "Truther" John Connor surprised pseudo-celebrity Danny Bonaduce with an impromptu interview. Bonaduce promptly smacked Connors into video infamy with a surprisingly powerful ... Bonaduce vs. Connor, part II

In case you’re one of the four folks who haven’t seen it on YouTube, 9/11 “Truther” John Connor surprised pseudo-celebrity Danny Bonaduce with an impromptu interview. Bonaduce promptly smacked Connors into video infamy with a surprisingly powerful …

]]> By: Glib Fortuna http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60374 Glib Fortuna Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:12:27 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60374 "Prepare for the dawn of the American Cyborg Liberties Union." --Suitably Flip Classic! “Prepare for the dawn of the American Cyborg Liberties Union.”

–Suitably Flip

Classic!

]]> By: inrussetshadows http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60375 inrussetshadows Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:08:21 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60375 I think this whole thing is madness -- as if we understand the human consciousness to model it. Without that understanding, there's no "consciousness" to give, unless you think the AI used in RPGs is "consciousness". I think this whole thing is madness — as if we understand the human consciousness to model it. Without that understanding, there’s no “consciousness” to give, unless you think the AI used in RPGs is “consciousness”.

]]> By: Suitably Flip http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60376 Suitably Flip Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:31:26 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60376 <strong>You Now Have 5 Seconds To Comply</strong> It's undoubtedly only a matter of time until we're duly enslaved by our fledgling metal overlords, but do we really need to be hastening the process? You Now Have 5 Seconds To Comply

It’s undoubtedly only a matter of time until we’re duly enslaved by our fledgling metal overlords, but do we really need to be hastening the process?

]]> By: Glib Fortuna http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60377 Glib Fortuna Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:34:33 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60377 You oppressive warmonger...you want to create cyborgpeople just to exploit them in order to feed the Neo-Con Halliburton-Industrial War Machine Complex. You oppressive warmonger…you want to create cyborgpeople just to exploit them in order to feed the Neo-Con Halliburton-Industrial War Machine Complex.

]]> By: Jay http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-60378 Jay Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:30:25 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/19/the-aclus-future-clients-robots/#comment-60378 Well, it would only be logical if they were to actually have self awareness that they would demand rights. We should stop short of giving them self concioussness if that is even possible and just make them all soldiers to fight our wars for us. Well, it would only be logical if they were to actually have self awareness that they would demand rights. We should stop short of giving them self concioussness if that is even possible and just make them all soldiers to fight our wars for us.

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