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Was thinking about this in terms of AI. As we create it we are probably going to put fail safes on it. So it would be reasonable then to assume if we were created the same thing would be programmed in us.

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[–] Gregorech 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But we can that's what DNA is and we are learning how to rewrite it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true, I wonder where consciousnesses falls into that?

[–] Gregorech 5 points 1 year ago

C.S. Lewis once said you are a soul, you have a body.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

now we need to protest against god to open source humans or make a libre alternative

[–] jesterraiin 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard to say. It depends on what kind of programs/robots we were. It might be that certain percentage of us are our creaters, it might be that we got rid of our creators, it might be that there's only one creator...

Too many possibilities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Does not compute error error error cheezoid hates self

[–] Buffalox 4 points 1 year ago

Nah, they'd allow self modifying code to see what we do with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But we might be able to reverse engineer it. Isn't that what we are doing, kinda?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If only they left an instruction manual

[–] Thoth19 3 points 1 year ago

And you think they did it correctly? Every large SW project has bugs. I assume this one would as well.