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Robin thinks that human emulations will be practical before a designed general artificial intelligence will be, and an emulated human will naturally be conscious and have (to some, currently unknown, extent) human emotions. Later they may be able to edit out particular capacities that are not desired for particular jobs. It may not be possible, on the other hand, to have an effective general intelligence that is not conscious and emotional - that is one thing that is not yet known either way.

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So far, economic development of machines suggests that the most efficient forms for doing various tasks are NOT human forms. Why do you think that trend will stop, and even reverse, and that ems will be the most productive machines, as opposed to machines designed to do the various production jobs? I foresee the richness of robots we see in factories today, but smaller, and larger, and more autonomous. But why make them conscious or capable of sadness or anger?

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