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me: gets that squinty eyed look you know from every spaghetti western, just before both gunslingers slap leatherhttps://twitter.com/padrebrendon/status/1090109790641106944 …
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Magic talking dogs don’t stop being manic talking dogs just because you create them via “genetic engineering” rather than “ritual magic.” Until it actually happens, in which case, like alchemy becoming chemistry, it stops being magical speculation and becomes reality.
I, Robot is Fantasy The Hobbit is Sci-Fi Somethings are obviously false, Padre
“I, Robot” is definitely fantasy, as the existence of hard AI necessitates a fundamental change in the metaphysical nature of reality. “The Hobbit” is ultimately, per its author’s intended revisions, part of an alternate history, which is a subgenre of SF.
> the existence of hard AI necessitates a fundamental change in the metaphysical nature of reality. unclear. I neither assert that hard AI is possible, or that it isn't. I have no evidence either way.
There is, and has been since at least the medieval period, proof that intelligence, properly so-called, is substantially immaterial and thus is not capable of being derived through the reorganization of matter (such as patterns on a magnetic disk).
I agree that intelligence may be immaterial and that the soul definitely is. However, it may be that God, perceiving a level of computational power sufficient to create a p-zombie, chooses to imbue it with self awareness. So, in the same way that two parents create a child but
are not responsible for creating the soul (God does that), it may be that mankind can engineer a creature that God chooses to imbue with awareness and consciousness.
But Asimov’s stories entail a world in which intelligence can be intentionally engineered out of material arrangement. Which entails a tweaking of the metaphysical nature of reality. Which is fantasy.
Asimov was a Godless communist, and we shall speak no more of him or his (many) heresies.
ok, a bit more: I met him once, and he was nice and polite. But, still: may God have mercy on him.
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