Japan is building human like robots, the USA is funding stem cell research.?
Is technology moving in the wrong direction? I can see how funding stem cell research can help find cures to some of the worst medical problems inflecting the human race, but if human cloning ever happens aren’t we just asking for trouble? And to top it off japan seems hell bent on creating human like robots, has no one over there been to the movies? what if they start messing with AI? Is it me or does anyone else see this as a ticking time bomb. I’m all for curing diseases and I know that down the line stem cell will benefit man kind, but aren’t we opening Pandora’s box here? cloning human DNA is a dangerous thing, and who’s to say that some where they haven’t already cloned a human being or beings.
I don’t think living in caves is an option to not having technology advance. But what I’m trying to say is that sometimes like with the Atom bomb we sould think twice about what we are capable of doing or just doing things because we can. Not everything that we’re capable of doing is for the benifit of man kind.

September 16th, 2011 at 6:37 am
So should we go back to living in stone caves?
Technology advances with time, that’s a fact of life.
You are thinking of the bad things that can happen, like in the movies, with terminators going around blasting things up. But it can be done for good things too, robots, clones etc all can be good. Yes there will always be people who want to use them for bad things, that’s life. But the possibility for good is endless too.
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September 16th, 2011 at 8:36 am
Even if they clone a human.. it won’t matter. The world won’t come to an end because two of the same person walk the earth. Stem cell research is mainly used for parts grown for a specific person. In reality.. they are extending the life of a human by growing new parts and replacing them in those who already exist. Essentially.. prolonging the life-span of humans. If a cloned person was walking around.. it would just be like any other human, the education and experience of that person down the line would be different and the “cloned” person wouldn’t be EXACTLY mentally identical to the umm.. “clonee”.
The biggest problem is creating a self-sustaining robot with calculations to calculate new problems. This is THE main issue. Right now robots don’t complete the circle of self-sustaining “beings”… all it would take is an accidental intelligence (AI) program for a robot to solve problems on its own.. thus, humans would become a threat. This would mean that every human would be up against the possibility of extinction. If a program and functional robot was ever created to think on its own and understand survival, uploaded with current human knowledge regarding the identification of all items on earth.. we’d be up shit creek without a paddle.
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September 16th, 2011 at 10:36 am
I love Japan and spent over 6 years living there and would go back in a second but let me tell you this: Japanese are kinky people! It didn’t surprise me one bit that the most ‘human like’ robot they’ve built so far is in female form…. Anyone want to lay odds that ‘shes’ fully functional? As for stem cell research, if there is anything for which we can expect the hell fire and damnation of Almighty God to rain down on us for, it that! Allowing abortion, tolerating homosexuality is bad enough, but harvesting cells from the unborn…there just isn’t enough sun-block!
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September 16th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Friend, there are far, far more important things to worry about in this world.
Let it go.
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September 16th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Stem cell research has nothing to do with cloning. In any case most stem cells used in research do not come from aborted foetuses so the ethical issues there are completely overblown. The real problem with stem cell research is that there have been few solid results. Human spinal cord reattachment may never actually happen.
Any machine is a type of robot, the fact that some researchers created a human like robot for the PR value is not really a big deal. The chances of her running amok a la the “fembot” episode of the Bionic Woman are pretty slim. Science fiction is just that-FICTION.
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September 16th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
If Japanese Scientists have the ability to go even further with developing advanced technology, then i say more power to them. I don’t see how its moving in the wrong direction though. Once Japan has fully developed human like androids, they could easily take over the labour force, which would benefit humans doing manual labour.
Don’t get paranoid by watching those I-Robot movies.
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September 16th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
I think you are right to be a little uneasy about this but if we do it responsibly it could be a great thing….and well, I don’t really think Japan has done too many impressive things with real robots, most of it is just really fun and not all that impressive.
I’d be more worried about large corporations undeniably huge influence over government and daily life in both countries. They are certainly the ones who would use these kinds of things irresponsibly.
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