Your ethics are leading you to believe this. For other people it doesn’t make sense at all that a computer program should have rights. It makes even less sense to people who know what a computer program is.
We don't give single cells rights, but we do give the complex organization of cells rights. Why should binary code never be given the same consideration as dna code? What defining factor is at play here?
To think that it is "just a program" could be like saying we are just machines without determination. This view may well become "racist" or "bigotry"
Individual ethics will determine the societal ethics that get codified into law. I have a hard time seeing how giving intelligent enough machines won't happen based on our existing ethics, laws, and history therein
> It makes even less sense to people who know what a computer program is.
I write code professionally and my beliefs are not what you claim them to be. Perhaps your opinion is the minority opinion? You should certainly not be claiming it as the de facto belief among programmers
verdverm|2 years ago
To think that it is "just a program" could be like saying we are just machines without determination. This view may well become "racist" or "bigotry"
Individual ethics will determine the societal ethics that get codified into law. I have a hard time seeing how giving intelligent enough machines won't happen based on our existing ethics, laws, and history therein
> It makes even less sense to people who know what a computer program is.
I write code professionally and my beliefs are not what you claim them to be. Perhaps your opinion is the minority opinion? You should certainly not be claiming it as the de facto belief among programmers