The Case for Soulless Life?

ClovenHoof

By "soulless" I mean the very spark of consciousness, the birth of the psyche, the unfoldment of the Self, being not presented in artificial life forms. What began with tales of Golems, Frankensteins and Pinochios, has come into reality of today.

I have to be honest about this. I am not comfortable with corporations creating artificial living creatures as you know it is only a matter of time when the psychopaths who run big business will no longer outsource your job job to China and Indian, but they will outsource your existence to the machine.

"Thanks to disruptive, cross-disciplinary applied science like this, entrepreneurs in the next few years will be able to play on the border of what life is, what alive means, and what life can be. "

http://www.inc.com/lisa-calhoun/meet-the-first-artificial-animal.html

Once the corporations get hold of this, the world won't be a place for you and your children. I think we need to put the brakes on this and bring back strict corporate enforcement on the issue.

and before some halfwit from the Civil Service chimes in. I am not anti-Abortion. This is something VERY different indeed.

Military Killbots...Sex Slaves...Paedophile Legal Highs...Recreational Legal Murders and so on. All for a price.

This is dark ****.

enzo roco

What in the blue hell is going on in here???

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

You ok?

Sh1tbag OToole

TOO DAMN DEEP!

lawlolawl

Will there be sexy ****bots?

The_Valeyard

Homer: Now then... computer, kill Flanders!

Ned: Did I hear my name? My ears are burning!

Homer:[whispering to mouse] That's a good start, now finish the job!

Ned: Oh, you're busy. Catch you later, compu-tator!

Homer: Oh, five thousand dollars for a computer and it can't even handle a simple assignment!

Ted111

pinocchios.

Chain Smoker

Paedophile Legal Highs were pretty hyped at first, got on the cover of NME, but the album was a bit of a dud and they just fell apart after that.

hairyslug

lawlolawl wrote: »

Will there be sexy ****bots?

Military sexy kill bots, the sexy kind

smash

Can they make a piglet with extra ribs and chickens wings instead of feet?

Ronald Wilson Reagan

No, you cant have it OP.

buried

Those skynet lads, along with the Weyland-Yutani corporation, and the Tyrells can gladly outsource my fecking job to some Ushabti slave robot while I drink and chill man. I don't give a leprechauns arse

Robsweezie

Thread title sounds like a novel set in some dystopian universe

Zillah

Pff, if these artificial people don't like it here a new life awaits them in the off-world colonies.

Shint0

Will Mods be robots too?

riffmongous

Oh OP, if only you too could have seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, perhaps then you could understand

Zillah

Joking aside, this is exactly the sort of thing that could lead to artificial organs for dying people and sexy new bodies for me before I get too old to have fun, so shut up OP.

The_Valeyard

Zillah wrote: »

Joking aside, this is exactly the sort of thing that could lead to artificial organs for dying people and sexy new bodies for me before I get too old to have fun, so shut up OP.

hehehehehe

Past that point buddy :P

FortySeven

They've got about ten years until I'm out of the market for a sex bot.

biko

That is a lot of weirdness for a single post.

Chain Smoker

biko wrote: »

That is a lot of weirdness for a single post.

Yup, and usually a post like that will come from someone with very few posts, someone with a lot of posts exclusively in a politics forum or someone from some weird forum I never check.
That guy's primary concerns beyond the paedophile VR or whatever it is that he's on about seem to revolve around public transportation though.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

This is the kind of OP that makes me despair for the calibre of people in this country right now.

WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT?

Your Face

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

riffmongous wrote: »

Oh OP, if only you too could have seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, perhaps then you could understand

Your Face wrote: »

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

Must be true so.

Your Face

Aaden Tiny Meadowlark wrote: »

Must be true so.

Replicant postings.

buried

Blade Runner quotes give me a fierce strong penchant for koka noodles

Esel

Dafug?

I blame the Elbonians.

Ted111

Cloven Hoof passes the Turing Test in one go with that post.

Ruu

I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Fox_In_Socks

A soulless life isn't so bad.

A life without cod, however...that is the spectre that haunts me.

Capt'n Midnight

This was state of the art chatbot. ELIZA It's now 50 years old.

It was run on a 0.0005 GHz computer with 0.000128 GB of RAM and was just one program running on a machine shared with other users.

Chatbots haven't improved much considering how powerful things like Google or Amazon clouds , considering how much programming effort has been extended since.

riffmongous

Your Face wrote: »

Replicant postings.

Who's memories are they originally though? There is only one way to solve this..

You are in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise, it's crawling towards you, you reach down and flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.Why is that Your Face?

Your Face

riffmongous wrote: »

Who's memories are they originally though? There is only one way to solve this..

You are in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise, it's crawling towards you, you reach down and flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.Why is that Your Face?

WHY AM I NOT HELPING?!!
I mean - oh silly tortoise, always messing about and getting into crazy situations.

OldGoat

ClovenHoof wrote: »

By "soulless" I mean the very spark of consciousness, the birth of the psyche, the unfoldment of the Self, .

I need to know more about unfoldment. Perhaps the OP can shed some enlightmentisms for me.

Potatoeman

In the year 40k there is only war.

riffmongous

Potatoeman wrote: »

In the year 40k there is only war.

That's a bit grimdark

Maximus Alexander

Is this about synths? God damn Institute. They could be anywhere; any one of us; hell I might be a synth and I don't even know it.