On 2011-05-24 10:15, William Grant wrote:
But Launchpad is not the only robot talking to Launchpad. It is a
general problem, and a special-case solution that works for internal
code is probably not a very good solution at all.
But robots talking to Launchpad are a different discussion that we can
have separately from the question "should there be a celebrity Person to
represent Launchpad itself?"
Conflating the two is only going to make it harder to get solutions.
How are they different? They are both robots.
They are both robots in the sense that they are "persons" who aren't
humans, though one kind is primarily a representation in the object
model and the other actually works like an independent actor. But that
doesn't get us anywhere.
The question is whether we should have a single user identity to
represent Launchpad as an owner of objects in Launchpad, author of
messages in conversations etc. The fact that that user would arguably
be a robot does not mean that we have to answer all questions relating
to the nature and function of all robots before we can answer the question.
Imagine we've solved all those problems. So we have an IRobot interface
like Curtis suggests, everybody can create them, robots and humans live
and work together in peace. Then we still face the same question:
should we have a single user identity to represent Launchpad as an owner
of objects in Launchpad, author of messages in conversations etc? The
fact that that user would probably be a robot doesn't alter it.
Conversely, whether Launchpad is represented as a person in the object
model has no earth-shattering impact on the various discussions we could
be having about robots. In other words, despite the obvious connections
between the two, they are basically orthogonal.
Jeroen
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