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Corporations can be programmed to run themselves and negotiate enforcable contracts with each other without any human intervention.

Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area.

Such probes would be programmed not to initiate contact with worlds with life on them.

The criminals who programmed the drones would be free from the law.

When I programmed VB6 I used to go to Planet Source Code (a website) to see what others had done.

I never programmed for the Amiga but like everyone else I was always impressed by what the Amiga demoscene could do.

I would really like to give my kids a simple device that could be programmed from the hardware up in something like Forth.

That's a pretty rosy picture of how a weapon programmed to perform an ethnic cleansing, a terror attack, or to herd civilians out of an area would act.

This is not a game that requires the level of precision one would get with C++ (yet it sucks performance wise even when it's being programmed in C++).

I have programmed C, C++, Prolog, Java, Go, and Haskell on OS X since 2007 without any problems.

If someone else, say, was genetically engineered and then programmed to know everything about computer science and modern mathematics, then maybe their getting degrees in CS and math would be less impressive...

If you're into this kind of thing, I've used anveo.com before which has a pretty powerful call flow engine that can be programmed via a nice drag-and-drop web ui.

Having "programmed" since I was ~5, the concept of variables and that level of indirection was second nature.

" Moreover, a treaty certainly does not apply to defensive anti-robot weapons, even if they operate in autonomous mode." That means if a robot is programmed for its defense only then there shouldnt be any treaty for its mass production.

"Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference." So even the Ethereum developers describe the core use as contracts.

I know these sound like trite, overly simplistic conclusions, but that's only because we're somewhat "programmed" by evolution to be hostile, and non-hostile solutions have only been consciously recognized as a viable option fairly recently in human history.