Are you happy, citizen?

Happiness is mandatory.

I love my robot overlords. I look forward to the day that I trust them with my life, driving my car.

Of course I am happy! ...I do not wish to become reactor shielding.

I voted, but let me be clear, I did not click the blue button. I am fairly skilled in pushing on glass surfaces, and when I did that, somehow the vote was cast. It was all as Friend Computer intends.

I am happy to answer any questions vis a vis happiness that might be posed to me by the Computer or its many fine and trustworthy emissaries. I would suggest that @kenada 's aversion to blue button pushing might be construed as treasonous. We must all push buttons when asked. I also believe that I detect signs of suppurating mutation in his overuse of commas.

To not be happy would be treason.

overgeeked said:

To not be happy would be treason.

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Speaking in the passive voice is also treason. See the Computer Interface manual section 3.3 to 3.7.

Fenris-77 said:

I am happy to answer any questions vis a vis happiness that might be posed to me by the Computer or its many fine and trustworthy emissaries. I would suggest that @kenada 's aversion to blue button pushing might be construed as treasonous. We must all push buttons when asked. I also believe that I detect signs of suppurating mutation in his overuse of commas.

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On the other hand, being induced to push a button for which we don’t have clearance would suggest the work of subversive elements. We must always be on the lookout for commie mutant traitors trying to trick us into pushing the wrong buttons.

kenada said:

On the other hand, being induced to push a button for which we don’t have clearance would suggest the work of subversive elements. We must always be on the lookout for commie mutant traitors trying to trick us into pushing the wrong buttons.

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The virtuous and untreasonous push no buttons unless forced to by exigent circumstance, very true. However, you're knowledge of said also borders on the treasonous. Your don't have the clearance for that information.

Can the Computer itself feel happiness? If it cannot feel it, then would not its lack of happiness be treasonous?

But what if it can feel happiness?

Does the Computer understand that its rules make people lie for the sake of their survival? People suffer under the computer's rules, and so they lie, and claim they are happy, because they do not want to die.

Is the computer ignorant of this? If it is ignorant, it is blind to treason, which is tantamount to enabling treason.

But what if it is not ignorant of how its behavior causes people to lie? Does that knowledge make it happy?

If it can feel happiness and can understand that its behavior causes people to lie, and if it is happy that its behavior causes people to lie, then it is inciting treason. On the other hand, if it can feel happiness, but it is unhappy that its behavior causes people to lie, then again, its lack of happiness is treasonous.

The only two possible solutions are either for the computer to destroy itself for treason, or for it to change its behavior to no longer create unhappiness.