in the shell

Morality is a dubious concept. At first you must decide, what you consider moral. Unlike many imagine, none of the rules of morality are set in stone, but change throughout cultures and times. The only things that remain same are the ones that the culture requires to survive - this is why pointless ...

In that research they also said that making visible light frequencies invisible is much harder and possibly impossible task - it'd require nano-level engineering and in nano-level the substances work in different ways. And if it's privacy you're worried about, invisibility is the least of your conce...

Here I must side with Animae. There are no rights, per se. There are only demands that may or may not be met. Rights are purely a contract that doesn't exist outside our minds and can be changed by circumstances. Rationally we can perceive possibility to bring a maximum amount of happiness to every ...

Now, I did point out, that trying to implement the judical system of one country in another doesn't neccesarily work out. Certainly I didn't mean that the US should copy Finland's system down to the last detail. Lightice, you might possibly be one of the most intellegent people in this forum Thanks ...

That kind of extremely light handed system seems unworkable. Surely you must have some sort of rehabilitation programs or some important force within your society, such as strong social prohibitions against behavior seen as unacceptable, for you to have low crime rates and such light sentencing at ...

Where are you from again? I ask because I live in the U.S, where we have the death penalty and "three strikes you're out" and overflowing prisons. How does your country deter and punish crime? Finland. No capital punishment (a wonderful euphemism, BTW) and imprisonment "for life"...

Indeed, in the Stand Alone Complex Saito is the least cyberized member after Togusa. In the manga Major is the only full-prosthetic cyborg in the team, but in the movie, or at least in Innocence Batou has gone full-cyborg, as well. Other's are left less clear, but I largely agree with Neuromancer's ...

AJB2K3 wrote: Saito got quite a bit of screen time.

In the movie? He doesn't say anything - Aramaki just commands him to get the assault squad ready. In the manga he makes some comments, but I wouldn't call his appearance exactly lengthy.

Both Paz and Borma appear in the original GitS, but they get barely any speaking roles - I'm not sure if Paz says a word in the entire volume. Borma makes a couple of comments, at least. Saito, too, gets very little screentime. He at least makes a cameo in the first movie, though his face is left un...

But it all comes down to how strong your beliefs are. Let's say you believe that lying is vile, lying is inappropriate, lying will ALWAYS eventually lead you down to trouble.So you, playing this role of a character that has probably never truly lied in years. And ethen let's say you have a kid. And...

In probably every single civilization in the world created or adopted the concept of a deity. Not typically a deity, but a whole host of beings of divinity. As pointed out before, religion is an important part for culture's development - one of the earliest societal structures is simple theocracy, ...

I thing you are putting a lot of interpretation on my words, if there is anything that seems incomplete to you why not ask me what I mean before counter arguing your interpretation of my views? I am forced to interpret what you are saying. If you don't want that, make your statements less open for ...

Lethagrin wrote: If an AI doesn't "evolve" with random change then what would it resolve to? Trial and error?

Presumably to observation and simulation. If it can study its own source code, it should be able to improve on it.

Bringing this post back to topic... I'm not sure if the forum rules consider this necromancy or not, but new discussion is always welcome, as far as I am concerned. Let’s not forget that the standard meaning of "evolution", at least in an organism perspective, means survival of the fittes...

All the words I have expressed so far have been true to my own view of thing, but just because I believe in an idea does not mean that I automatically defend it or argue for it. So which are you doing? Defending your idea or not? It's a bit difficult to make sense of you, when your first sentence s...