while we're on the topic

1. Understand it is not and can never be conscious, not even conscious like your dog is conscious.
2. Also understand that as we make them in our own image, the danger comes from our callous refusal to treat them like a person.

A double-edged sword.

Currently they have similar neurological potential to a small animal, so I'm happy to treat them that way ethically.

Yeah the problem is the age old "made in our image" issue.

If we made robots tomorrow, you know some people would get up to some sick shit with them.

Would you really feel comfortable living next to someone like that?

So where's the line? Being rude to it? Not saying please and thank you?

How long before you forget to say please and thank you to a person, because you're so used to not saying it to a robot that looks like a person?

It becomes a slippery slope of its' own.

A very interesting point. 🤔
This is a subject that comes up a lot in entertainment media where someone who treats Skin Jobs badly comes off as a psychopath (even if we never see the person abuse a human).

@EvilSandmich @BroDrillard @Eiregoat @thefinn We don't even have to consider robots. Just look at social media. It's an avatar or a string of letters on the screen, and already here, we lower our ethical and behavioural standards compared with being with the same person in the same physical room.

Does this mean that online, we "train" ourselves to worse behaviour, and that we do bring that with us into regular life at work and in the village?