Are you a Human or a robot?

Question

In "Human or Robot?" - http://geocities.com/ulafrique/nanotechn... L'Afrique claims that "an overwhelming percentage of the people in the USA are generic beings." L'Afrique further argues that the reason why we have people in high places repeatedly making illogical decisions and people supporting them, regardless of facts, is because these are generic beings that do not think and cannot reason. Well, are you a Human or a robot?

Sorry. L'Afrique's "Human or Robot?" - http://geocities.com/ulafrique/nanotechnoly.html - can also be found at Africaplanet.com.

Okay, it's http://www.geocities.com/ulafrique/nanotehnology.html

You know, I just love typing! Okay, it's http://www.geocities.com/ulafrique/nanotechnology.html

Answer 1

I'm L'Afrique. Yes, I made the claims stated in my "Human or Robot?" - http://www.geocities.com/ulafrique/nanotechnology.html - and sadly, they are true and correct. There's laughter - and the people actually laughing are Scientists (esp. Nikola Tesla, Isaac Asimov and Richard Smalley), Technologists and Thinkers - and they're laughing because they know my statements are very true. If you're truly human, just try reasoning with the person next to you and see how they respond: a true human will welcome debate and eventually correction; but a generic - robot/human imposter - will immediately become irritated and even allege you're a "terrorist" simply because robots do not think and cannot reason! Robots are nothing but dumb chunks of materials until told what to do!

The "model of democracy" has been getting its people to comply, for several years now, by dehumanizing them - the ultimate form of human rights violations! As one famous or infamous person already said, "history will absolve me."

Answer 2

Well...I don't know that we're robots, but I do know this: we're one of the rarest nations in the world that actually has freedom, we also have a lot of rights, but unfortunately we're not politically inclined. Why is this bad? Because we're choosing our leaders by not choosing them. Meaning that a lot of people think that "not voting" will make it better, so what happened? One person here, one person there...saying i don't want to vote...These "one person here, one person there.." made 51% of the population not voting. If we all voted, or at least 85% or more voted we'll have a more accurate choice of leaders. It's amazing, more than half of Americans haven't voted, this tells me that our leaders aren't really chosen, because it's not accurate. No wonder we have people complaining all the time about our leaders.
It's sad that 52% of Americans voted for American Idol, where only 49% voted in the presidency elections!
That's my opinion though :)

Answer 3

Everyone has a mind and free will..Sometimes it seems like they are robots but are just answering questions that they feel are right and truthful..So are we robots or Humans? I believe humans...Robots are Machines..We are full of Blood

Answer 4

A human being has created a robot.why so u r comparing robot with human being .basically wrong.aAOur ansesters if had given some decisions when no body did why r you criticising them.if one may improve and show what is it exactly .

Answer 5

If I was a robot, would I know, or would I be programmed to think I'm a human?

Answer 6

I am human.... reject to robot make hurt all human getting lost job and etc... but can allow robot work go to any space, underwater very deep, cave deep, north or south pole.... NO ALLOWED TO ROBOT'S MILITARY THAT IS CHEAT.

Answer 7

Actually, robotic reasoning or AI, is probably more efficient and logical than the 'illogical' reasoning of the voting public and their representatives.

The 'illogical' decisions are made because of incentive. The politicians have incentive to raise campaign funds and vote to please either the general voting public, or those that can keep them in office by overwhelming the opponent's campaign funding, or both. So there's an 'illogical' incentive on the part of politicians. They do what's best for their chances to stay in office. The people who support them don't support them on their records, they support them, usually, because of subjective resonance, i.e., "I like Dubya cuz he tawks like me and he got a ranch like me, and he common folk". We all know Dubya isn't common folk, and his ranch is more like a whole county, but his persona resonates with a lot of the voting public, because he comes across as less urbane and more pedestrian. That's a subjective link to a candidate. Objectively, he blows chunks all over economic and military initiatives and his foreign policy implementation is all but non-existent. But because there's an innate trust in him, at least in the Novembers of 2000 and 2004, he's the president.

Look, people get the government they deserve. If the 'robots' aren't willing to delve into the issues and the voting records and experience and ability and perspective and logic of a candidate, then they will take shortcuts, like "hey, Dubya is a good guy" and use that as a voting justification or crutch.

Humans are the least generic of all species of animal and plant on earth from a biological and physical perspective. From a cognitive perspective, they are even MORE unique and varied, think about all the thoughts and experiences of 6 billion people, each and every day. There's a lot of variety there. The problem is that variety consumes much of our mind and time and effort, leaving little to dedicate to important things like public affairs, politics, the macro-economy and foreign affairs.

Robotics is more prevalent in the exercise of politics, where everyone learns politics from predecessors, there's a 'political correctness' that everyone seems to adhere to, and there are diplomatic protocols that are followed by almost everyone in government office that deals with other nations. It's a song and dance and it's been fine tuned over millenia with little or no change.

The problem is that people have changed over those millenia, and the political waltz is still going to the same tune of 500 years ago. A change is necessary for politics, government and economy to reflect the needs of a new society and the hegemony of the individual over the individual (meaning, you run your own life now and are capable of making decisions that affect you directly, rather than hoping the government figures it out and getting pissed when they naturally don't figure it out).

In the U.S., we are by and large politically apathetic (including the MoveOn.org crowd). We like to hitch onto wagons, rather than form lucid, individual opinions and debate those opinions openly and honestly. We outsource everything, childcare, education, birthing, cooking, cleaning, work, everything, so why not outsource the governance of our lives, our minds and our bodies? That is what I believe is being referred to as robotics. We check out and let others check in for us. Unfortunately, the people who can afford to check in have rarely lived real lives. They're trust fund babies, uber-millionaires or lifelong politicians who've grown up pandering to special interests because special interests keep them employed.

I think Schwarzenegger, Ventura, Perot and a few others are people who ran for office without needing the money or the fame. They did it because something is seriously wrong with the way government works in this nation. And they tried their best to do what normal people would've done: reduce taxes, reduce government, cut red tape, make the government work for the people rather than the other way around.

Of course, these guys went into a maelstrom of U.S. politics with little to no experience with how things worked, and with more bravado than serious planning on how to undermine the status quo and get the fat cats in state capitols and DC to pay attention to what the people really want.

Part of the dilemma is we don't care, part of it is we're too busy busting our tails off to keep our heads above water to devote time to care about politics. A lesson to be learned by future generations: manage your money well and manage your politicians even better. It will continue to be an exploitative world where the 'robots' will march to the orders of a few, if they have no interest in writing and enforcing their own marching orders upon their elected representatives.

Answer 8

I'm a sophisticated sex robot, sent back in time to change the future for one lucky lady.

Answer 9

I ARE LOVER BOT!!! come get your love thanks and sorry I hurt you will an I <3 you all make up for it???

ok 4 realz we are all just prisioners in our own worlds the best you can do is expand your world and hope to meet someone who can save you from your own prision. Or you can turn your prision into heaven.

Answer 10

I don't know about human or robot but I am a machine.