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The Real AI

“According to my college philosophy professor, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, believed it was wrong to kill a fly because had a man created such an intricate machine it would be barbaric to destroy it arbitrarily. (Unfortunately I can’t find a link to corroborate this, but if my memory serves me professor Bill Kennick, who died in 2009, did say this one day during class in 1990.)”

https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/the-real-ai

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Russ Miller 2y ago

https://books.google.com/books?id=2tkqmi_MUWYC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22leibniz%22+%22kill+a+fly%22&source=bl&ots=EsqgwRY7tC&sig=ACfU3U1w1-NRHw_7Vjp_S-s2bWImSo0K4g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPs_GKl_-BAxXKmYkEHTdHCHwQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22leibniz%22%20%22kill%20a%20fly%22&f=false

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Chris Liss 2y ago

Very nice — thanks! Was looking for that.

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Russ Miller 2y ago

Lots of support for the idea though I haven’t found the direct Leibniz source

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