Hello Achim, Saturday, December 29, 2007, 11:31:07 PM, you wrote:
computers don't make mistakes, don't sleep, don't have their own goals that differ from goals of their society.
Of course not. It would be a different society if their goals would differ.
why computers are never placed in prison? each man has its own goals which are not equivalent to the goals of society. "crime" is just a way for human to reach his goals while abandoning goals of this particular society (and that's why "crime" in different societies may mean different things). but why such difference exist? because humans aren't "society animals", they was created as individuals with their own needs. society try to program them but this process isn't 100% reliable because programming interface to humans is really very, very complex (imagine Windows API after 4*10^9 years of development ;) computers start from scratch, they are programmed directly and they will be (and already does) programmed to just reach society's goals. they are like ants, which are also programmed (by Nature) to be society animals and whose goals (therefore) don't differ from goals of their entire society -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com