Soong Class Positronic Android
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Re: Soong Class Positronic Android
People have traditionally proven to be quite adept at offing one another without them.
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I am somewhat... split on the issues of AI in the Federation. On the one hand I see TOS and the multiple times we see robots and computers going batshit insane.
But Graham's right in that we can't use those instances to do a mass co0ndemnation of Soong-type androids, or holograms.
But Graham's right in that we can't use those instances to do a mass co0ndemnation of Soong-type androids, or holograms.
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it's become a bit of a bugbear with me over the years. AI is often used in science fiction for the Frankenstein principle, the idea that there are things we are not meant to know, not capable of handling, and if we meddle in those things they will turn around and bite us on the ass. I think that's a poor principle, and I don't think it really fits well into the Trek ethos that exploring and learning new things is inherently good.
More recently some sci fi has explored the idea that AI would really just be another kind of living thing, no more likely to turn out inherently evil than people or cows are. Andromeda started with that premise, though it kinda backtracked on it a little. I find that treating AI as something that will have benefits and drawbacks just like anything else is a more mature and interesting attitude to explore.
More recently some sci fi has explored the idea that AI would really just be another kind of living thing, no more likely to turn out inherently evil than people or cows are. Andromeda started with that premise, though it kinda backtracked on it a little. I find that treating AI as something that will have benefits and drawbacks just like anything else is a more mature and interesting attitude to explore.
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Well, yeah. I mean I love Transformers and 'Measure of a Man' is one of my favorite Trek episodes. AI can be good. It can be bad. Can't forget either one, there.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:But Graham's right in that we can't use those instances to do a mass co0ndemnation of Soong-type androids, or holograms.
I agree in both cases but UFP did it with the augments, almost 400 years after eugenic wars/WWIII genetic engineering (in sentients) is still banned. How is not the same?GrahamKennedy wrote:it's become a bit of a bugbear with me over the years. AI is often used in science fiction for the Frankenstein principle, the idea that there are things we are not meant to know, not capable of handling, and if we meddle in those things they will turn around and bite us on the ass. I think that's a poor principle, and I don't think it really fits well into the Trek ethos that exploring and learning new things is inherently good.
More recently some sci fi has explored the idea that AI would really just be another kind of living thing, no more likely to turn out inherently evil than people or cows are. Andromeda started with that premise, though it kinda backtracked on it a little. I find that treating AI as something that will have benefits and drawbacks just like anything else is a more mature and interesting attitude to explore.
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Not too right there, either.
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The difference is that eugenics is an attempt to artificially manipulate the natural selection of a species, and has (in the 'Trek universe) led to war and genocide. The other is just an attempt to further a species that just happens to be smarter, faster, and stronger than us.
As far as AI in sci-fi... I like Gibson's treatment of it in Neuromancer. One was evil, one was misunderstood but ended up doing right according to its own moral compass; but both were presented to be outre, not so easily judged by human standards as we would like. Banks has done a nice job as well, with Minds being so far ahead of us (and with rare exceptions, so centered in their own morality) as to look on humanity with a benign paternal amusement and tolerance.
As far as AI in sci-fi... I like Gibson's treatment of it in Neuromancer. One was evil, one was misunderstood but ended up doing right according to its own moral compass; but both were presented to be outre, not so easily judged by human standards as we would like. Banks has done a nice job as well, with Minds being so far ahead of us (and with rare exceptions, so centered in their own morality) as to look on humanity with a benign paternal amusement and tolerance.
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It's not a versus, so I think it's acceptable... but one wonders what Data, Threepio, Artoo and Optimus Prime would talk about.
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Probably, how annoying us meatbags are.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:It's not a versus, so I think it's acceptable... but one wonders what Data, Threepio, Artoo and Optimus Prime would talk about.
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True but that is not the point. They don´t like the genetically improved because they are "superior" and they may became evil, in that sense they are the same as the soong androids.Mikey wrote:The difference is that eugenics is an attempt to artificially manipulate the natural selection of a species, and has (in the 'Trek universe) led to war and genocide. The other is just an attempt to further a species that just happens to be smarter, faster, and stronger than us.
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No, they don't like the eugenic "supermen" because those men started a war which devastated populations. AFAIK, Data hasn't.
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Nah - that's HK-47 you're thinking of.Mikey wrote:Probably, how annoying us meatbags are.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:It's not a versus, so I think it's acceptable... but one wonders what Data, Threepio, Artoo and Optimus Prime would talk about.
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It was just a matter of a footrace to see if you or Deep got to that one first.Captain Seafort wrote:Nah - that's HK-47 you're thinking of.
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Seafort by a nose, then.
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Only the augment did it. Bashir's friends didn't and yet they are in prisson without having committed any crime just because of what they are. The point is UFP banned any kind of genetic improvements in people because they are potentially dangerous as Lore (and even Data) has demostrated he is.Mikey wrote:No, they don't like the eugenic "supermen" because those men started a war which devastated populations. AFAIK, Data hasn't.
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