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This 4 page paper outlines the application of Rachels and Williams' views on cultural relativism to Bill Joy's "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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increasingly complex and intelligent machines (and artificial intelligence) may diminish the need for human contact or human control, inherently determining the declining necessity for humanity. The ethical issues related
to this perspective, then, were of grave concern for Joy, and can be understood through an application of James Rachels ethical arguments regarding cultural determinism and Williams views on the
maintaining of cultural perspectives. In understanding the application of views on cultural relativism to Bill Joys perspectives, it is necessary to consider the central arguments he presents and his assessment
of projections for the future of mankind. Joy suggests that even for individuals in the scientific community, the rate and expanse of technological development is surprising. "I already
knew that new technologies like genetic engineering and nanotechnology were giving us the power to remake the world, but a realistic and imminent scenario for intelligent robots surprised me" (Joy,
2000). Even so, Joy took the scenario one step further, and suggested that the development of intelligent machines, machines that can do things better than humans, can determine the
onset of conflicting cultural and ethical views. Creating machines that can do things better than humans and think in the place of humans may in fact place the human
race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly improving technological developments relates to a
view of machines as capable (and desirous) of taking the place of the human race. What this suggests is that there is a need to consider, through the application
of cultural relativism, the way this view has come into play. Theorists like Bernard Williams (1972, p. 72) recognized that it is not uncommon for man to apply a
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