We do though? Who says that a fish has any rights? What rights could a fish have?

Okay and what, fundamentally stops a computer from being conscious? You say you don't need any test, that its impossible for a computer to be self aware. What makes you say that?

Not really. Most if not all animals aren't conscious either so whether they have rights or not is pretty relevant.

1. They can't
2. Plagiarism isn't a crime

What test can we use to tell the difference between something that replicates language and something that is conscious and uses languages?

or animal rights

Hey, what do you mean I don't need to ship an entire browser-stack just so my chat application can render shit with javascript?!!?

>totally random and non-deterministic, e.g. radioactive decay

Its not totally random, from the perspective of an individual atom it appears to be. But if you have enough atoms then there is a clear non-randomness to the decay.

Look at it like this, if it were truly random, then different atoms couldn't have different half lives.

>One, that makes no sense. Sex is a classification because it is part of material, empirical reality.

You are fighting a losing war here. Bulter is a post modernist, they don't just disagree with your conclusions, they disagree with the entirety of how you got there. To a post modernist the statement,

" it is part of material, empirical reality."

Is already were they are disagreeing with you. Material, empirical reality either does not exist or is impossible to discover according to them.

> Isn't biological sex based on biology

Butler takes the post modernist stance that "biology" as a group of rules and ideas is inherently made up and therefore meaningless.

They do not believe that because we observed reality and constructed these rules and ideas from these observations, that it means there is any validity to these rules.

The central tenant of post modernism is that the human subjective makes any sort of objectivism impossible (some even go further and claim that objectiveness is impossible itself)

Of course, this is why these kinds of ideas are limited to philosophy and other related fields - scientific theory is predicated on the idea that objectiveness does exist and is achievable to some degree.

>Left unattended, computers will rust, because it will never occur to them to do anything else, because nothing ever occurs to a computer. Computers don't have ideas.

Except if the computer is running a neural net, then yes, it actually can "come up with new ideas" thats the entire point of machine learning algorithms.

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As for your previous paragraphs. In order to have a reaction against something, there must be a something there. New art styles and ideas build upon everything that comes before it, even if its a rejection of those ideas.

Yes and cave paintings don't look anything like the kind of art produced today. Art is learned and developed through imitation.

>Without decades of work being done by humans, there's nothing to "train" the system on. It's imitation, not intelligence

If you raised a human in a dark room its whole life, do you think it could make art if you handed it a paintbrush and turned on the light?

Its pretty astounding that we can generate music from text using algorithms. Like, this ability just didn't exist a few years ago and now it does.

>while drawn art industry (if you can call it that) was permissive and benevolent to a fault.

Ah yes, an industry with titans such as Disney are known to be permissive and benevolent to a fault!

Lol so you would call the local government in a system without authority???

Socialism isnt anarchism. In neither is anarchy as a system really explored.

They could absolutely be used in medical settings. Moving medicines and supplies around, holding instruments, providing support.

Actually I'm not going any further, either you are completely unimaginative or are just an idiot and I'm going for the latter.

Are you so close minded you cant imagine how useful these robots would be in literally any industry?

Not really a "feel good" comment to imply racial ownership of land that goes through blood lines.

??? It takes a lot of time and effort to develop a new vaccine. We dont have a universal "anti virus" vaccine.

That poster is a conservative liar. There are no waiting lists for medical services in the UK.

AI is going to be solving problems more complex than we can, that's kind of the whole point of it. So why is this domain different?