Re: (OPE-L) Re: The Church-Turing thesis

From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 17:49:58 EST

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> If capitalist relations still prevail and if the 'Universal Turing Machine'
> is developed, do you really think that it will be used only for the
> benefit of our species and the world we live in?   Wouldn't Universal
> Turing Machines become soldiers, police, and scabs? What
> would happen to workers in this futuristic scenario?
>
Have you read Kurt Voneguts book Player Piano, written 1948?

The Universal Turing Machine has of course long been built,
Vonnegut wrote as the first prototypes were being developed.

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