dimreepr

Maybe or maybe he was just psychotic.

Since none of us live in ancient Rome, I'm as confused as you seem to be.

Enough said, LOL...

My lucid dreams have certain cues that I've learnt, through repetition, to recognise; reality doesn't, for me, present the same type of repetition and the difference removes my doubt.

How many bad people that make bad things happen who own firearms, that you know?

Dogs are dogs and act dog-like, would you blame them for sniffing another dog’s arse, or blame subsequent generations for doing the same? All dogs are unique but they’re still dogs, just like all humans are both unique and human, we may not sniff arses but we do act like a humans.

Your biggest difficulty and, I think, your entire fellow gun-loving advocates, is forgetting that “good people and good things happen” enormously outnumbers “bad people and bad things happen” which renders your arguments superfluous, real life isn’t a playground and requires grown up thinking.

So you simultaneously, demand the right to, potentially kill and acknowledge the states right to deny you that privilege?

I think lucid dreaming may fall into two different categories, recognition and influence; what I described above can be described as recognition, but on occasion I am able to direct or influence the dream for my pleasure; what meaning we can take from the experience is unclear, though I’d love to know.

Wow, what did you ask of your mirror? “mirror mirror on the wall who flips allegiance most often of all?”

It’s a good thing for profit margins, not people so the question is who convinced you?

Good point +1, I may have a caveat but I’ll have to cogitate.

Let’s not run around in circles on this point; the number of people on this planet and what we’ve accomplished, super intelligence should be a given, because for us to fear such a machine it’s wit must exceed the collective wit of humanity.

If it can't outwit us, what's to fear?

Never the less, what's to fear from a machine that just bursts into tears when challenged?

Super intelligence has to be a given in this thread.

Then we're back to my post #40.

What people, what thing and for what reason?

“Since sentience seems to be an emergent quality of intelligence” I think I should revise this to include emotion since all sentient creatures are intelligent and emotional.

I’m intrigued by my dreams and often ponder if there are any meaningful insights to be had. In my youth I would perceive some sort of threat and struggle to wake myself, recognising it as a dream, but on awakening I would realise that I’m still in the dream and again struggle to awaken, this would continue multiple times before I actually wake up; any meaning still eludes me. When I was with my now ex-partner my dreams tended to be about her indifference or deliberately favouring another suitor over me; the meaning seems fairly obvious. Now my dreams tend to be about a journey to somewhere I know well and know the way too but, either, come across multiple, unexplainable, obstacles or open a door and walk into an unrecognised environment; I think I have a handle on this type of dream but I’m not sure. The interesting thing about the above dreams is that I learnt to recognise them as dreams in the dream, which would not only relax me but I’d even start to analyse potential meaning. My dog has recently had pups and when they were only a day old they displayed the type of leg twitching and odd noise like their mother does when she seems to dream; but what could they be dreaming of since they’re blind, a day old and can’t walk?

As Ed suggested that is a semantic tangent to the OP, but the question remains “what is there to fear?” to which the answer seems to be a great deal, admittedly, not from this particular computer but imagine a future iteration that can think for itself and is able to outwit our best strategists?

And who knows what type of pet will emerge? Other than it’s without a soul.

Is masturbation healthy? I hope so, otherwise all that healthy eating is for nothing. And I'd hate to be blind.

You seem confused about the word “emergent” not to mention “intelligent”; is an ant or bee intelligent or sentient? Moreover sentience isn’t graduated, you either are or you aren't.

Since sentience seems to be an emergent quality of intelligence and given the OP, there would be no threat from a stupid but sentient machine or from a hyper intelligent machine, but not sentient, that simply follows its programming; and since sentience is an emergent quality of intelligence, we don’t need to understand either for it to happen.