Kari Paul | Motherboard
”When a human being is killed by an autonomous machine, who takes the blame? Human rights non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch says it is virtually impossible to tell, and that presents unprecedented danger in the future of warfare. The group released a report today showing how difficult it will be to hold commanders, operators, programmers or manufacturers legally responsible for crimes committed by autonomous machines under current legislature.” Read more
By Sarah Kessler — Fast Company
On Thursday morning, a handful of anti-gun-violence activists realized there is an app in the Google Play Store with their names on it—literally. The app, Gunfree Geo Marker, features a map pinpointing the home and work addresses of politicians, gun control organization employees, and “random anti-gun trolls” who “push the anti-gun agenda in any way, shape or form.”
Clicking on a person’s name in the menu reveals their address on a Google map, along with the app creator’s reasons for including that person in the app.Read more
Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson, thinks that the desire to explore, which has pushed humans to cross oceans and conquer mountains, will continue to propel humans into space.
“I think what is happening now is as profound as the transition that took place among hunter gatherers when they left Africa 50 or 60 thousand years ago,” said Impey. “It took an amazing short time – just a couple hundred generations – for simple tribal units of 50 or 100 to spread essentially across the Earth.“Read more
By Darlene Damm - SigularityHub
The ethics of robot cars has been a hot topic recently. In particular, if a robot car encounters a situation where it is forced to hit one person or another—which should it choose and how does it make that choice? It’s a modern version of the trolley problem, which many have studied in introductory philosophy classes.
Imagine a robot car is driving along when two people run out onto the road, and the car cannot avoid hitting one or the other. Assume neither person can get away, and the car cannot detect them in advance. Various thinkers have suggested how to make an ethical decision about who the car should hit:
The last of these deserves a little more detail. What would these values be like?
By Josh Greenbaum — Wired
If you’re looking for a way to gauge how the 3D printing market will evolve, look no further than the dawn of two other revolutionizing technologies – the desktop printing market and the VHS standard. And be prepared for a decidedly off-color story.
While many of us have fond memories of watching a favorite movie when it first came out on VHS, or admiring the first three-color party invitation we printed on a laser printer, the fact remains that innocent pursuits were not the sole reason either of these technologies took off. And we shouldn’t expect 3D printing to be any different.
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Graham Templeton — Motherboard
The robot stares down at the sickly old woman from its perch above her home care bed. She winces in pain and tries yet again to devise a string of commands that might trick the machine into handing her the small orange bottle just a few tantalizing feet away. But the robot is a specialized care machine on loan from the hospital. It regards her impartially from behind a friendly plastic face, assessing her needs while ignoring her wants.
If only she’d had a child, she thinks for the thousandth time, maybe then there’d be someone left to help her kill herself.
Hypothetical scenarios such as this inspired a small team of Canadian and Italian researchers to form the Open Roboethics Initiative (ORi). Based primarily out of the University of British Columbia (UBC), the organization is just over two years old. The idea is not that robotics experts know the correct path for a robot to take at every robo-ethical crossroad—but rather, that robotics experts do not.
“Ethics is an emergent property of a society,” said ORi board member and UBC professor Mike Van der Loos. “It needs to be studied to be understood.” Read more
Quoted: “Blockchains are thus an intriguing model for coordinating the full transactional load of any large-scale system, whether the whole of different forms of human activity (social systems) or any other system too like a brain. In a brain there are quadrillions of transactions that could perhaps be handled in the universal transactional system architecture of a blockchain, like with Blockchain Thinking models.”
Read the IEET brief here > http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swan20150217
By Kyle Wiens — Wired
I spent last weekend elbow-deep in engine grease, hands tangled in the steel guts of my wife’s Mazda 3. It’s a good little car, but lately its bellyachings have sent me out to the driveway to tinker under the hood.
I regularly hurl invectives at the internal combustion engine—but the truth is, I live for this kind of stuff. I come away from each bout caked in engine crud and sated by the sound of a purring engine. For me, tinkering and repairing are primal human instincts: part of the drive to explore the materials at hand, to make them better, and to make them whole again.
Cars, especially, have a profound legacy of tinkering. Hobbyists have always modded them, rearranged their guts, and reframed their exteriors. Which is why it’s mind-boggling to me that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just had to ask permission from the Copyright Office for tinkerers to modify and repair their own cars.
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CROSS-FUNCTIONAL AWAKEN, YET CONDITIONALIZED CONSCIOUSNESS AS PER NON-GIRLIE U.S. HARD ROCKET SCIENTISTS!
(Excerpted from the White Swan Book)
Sequential and Progressive Tidbits as Follows:
SEQUENTIAL AND PROGRESSIVE TIDBIT # 1 OF # 5
” .… Consciousness is the process of creating a model of the world using multiple feedback loops in various parameters (e.g., in temperature, space, time, and in relation to others), in order to accomplish a goal (e.g., find mates, food, shelter)…”
SEQUENTIAL AND PROGRESSIVE TIDBIT # 2 OF # 5
” … Human consciousness is a specific form of consciousness that creates a model of the world (Weltanchaung ) and then simulates it in time [there is to say: RAND Corporation’s Dr. Strangeloves’s Scenario-Planning Methodology], by evaluating the past time to simulate the future [never by retrospection but acute prospections]. This requires mediating and evaluating many feedback loops [at times, also including close-loop feedbacks], with the [strategic] end to make a [sound and sustainably profitable] decision to [concomitantly] achieve a [driven by numerical data] goal and an [driven by narrative data] objective …”
SEQUENTIAL AND PROGRESSIVE TIDBIT # 3 OF # 5
” … The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine [via outright scientific futuring] objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real [, which is also to say in the PERCEIVED Corporate Theater of Operations], and it is this ability [and capability] that allows [and empowers] us to think about the future. As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an ’ …anticipation machine …’ [that is to say, a biological foresighting and farsighting apparatus] and ’ …making the future …’ [creating the desired output] is the most important thing it does …”
SEQUENTIAL AND PROGRESSIVE TIDBIT # 4 OF # 5
Dr. Gamel Hamel, a great U.S. citizen, is, as per my understanding, America’s top I.Q. #25. He was the CEO to Strategos and currently a prominent scholar and he is fully-tenured Professor Gary Hamel, PhD. at pervasive London Business School. Hamel, incessantly, pays a great deal of attention to REALITY and the quote below, excerpted in the White Swan book, is used by him frequently.
VERBATIM:
“… [He] tells a wonderful little story about how he came to recognize this deep truth: On the third day of a conference at a Buddhist center, I asked people why they put their palms together several times a day. THE BUDDHISTS BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS AN ILLUSION, BUT WE HAVE TO GO ALONG WITH THE ILLUSION FOR EFFICIENCY REASONS. When they put their hands together it is a semicolon, an acknowledgment that whatever they may think is going on right now is largely a fabrication of their own mind…”
TO UNDERPIN ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUT ESPECIALLY SEQUENTIAL AND PROGRESSIVE TIDBIT # 4, THIS MUST AS WELL BE OBSERVED:
AS THE GREAT VICTORIAN BIOLOGIST THOMAS HUXLEY (4 MAY 1825 – 29 JUNE 1895) ONCE SAID,
” …The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, IS THAT OF THE DETERMINATION OF MAN’S PLACE IN NATURE AND HIS RELATION TO THE COSMOS [THE ULTIMATE ATEMPORAL AND ASPATIAL ZENITH OF AWAKEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND HENCE INTELLIGENCE AND WISDOM] …” (ASIN: B00KMY0DLK).
SEQUENTIAL AND PROGRESSIVE TIDBIT # 5 OF # 5
BY THE WAY, COUNTER-INTUITIVENESS AND SIXTH SENSE AND ETHICS AND INTEGRITY HAVE NO GENDER.
To shed some light, I will also share two quotes as well.
NEVERTHELESS, THE PANCHATANTRA (BODY OF EASTERN PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE) ESTABLISHES,
“… Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes [neither combined with and through the pineal gland] … ”
AND ANTONIO MACHADO ARGUES,
“… An eye is not an eye because you see it; an eye is an eye because it sees you …”
Managers always need a clear-eyed and lucid pineal gland’s knowledgeable and knowledge-injected vision.
DID YOU ALREADY CONNECT THE DOTS STEMMING FROM THE PANCHATANTRA AND MACHADO?
Did you already integrate those dots into your marshable gestalt’s big-picture vista?
As side effect, British Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone considered,
“…You cannot fight against the future…”
TO THIS PURPOSE AND GIVEN TO ME BY A SEPHARDI HEBREW DECADES AGO, AN ARAB ADAGE ARGUES,
“… The one who foretells the future correctly, lies even if he is telling the truth correctly …”
HOWEVER, AS A COUNTERPOINT LOCKHEED MARTIN ARGUES:
“… What’s impossible today won’t be [so] tomorrow …”
ABSOLUTE END.
Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini
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FORTUNATELY AND TO THIS PURPOSE, A LOCKHEED MARTIN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER AND ENGINEER WROTE:
” … Many businesses think today’s world is complicated and with technology rapidly changing, trying to figure out all the correct things to do is impossible, that it is better to just do what can be done, and adjust things when the result happens to be what is not expected. This is simply gambling where the odds for success and the liability of failure are getting worse by the day. The truth is the world is not complicated, just complex, and with complexity increasing at the same time technology is rapidly changing, the combination of the two conditions only seems complicated. The difference between complexity and complication is complexity can be logically addressed and accounted for such that proper risk management can then be applied and when the quality of the technology is assured early in the planning, analysis and design of the technical solution instead of only assuring it late in the development cycle, the integrated combination of these two scientifically validated methodologies can be used to reliably predict the expected outcomes. There is nobody better at applying the integrated combination of risk management and quality assurance than Mr. Andres Agostini or is there anybody that has more real world experience in doing so, and this includes solving some of the most wicked problems of some of the largest businesses throughout the world. If you are just gambling things work out, then I highly recommend you stop doing business dangerously and seek the assistance of Andres, the master of risk management and quality assurance, as well as reliability and continuous process improvement …”
ABSOLUTE END.
Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini
White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)
http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini
http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini
https://www.FACEBOOK.com/heldenceo (Other Publications)
http://LIFEBOAT.com/ex/bios.andres.agostini
http://ThisSUCCESS.wordpress.com
https://www.FACEBOOK.com/agostiniandres
http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini
http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html
https://www.FACEBOOK.com/amazonauthor
http://FUTURE-OBSERVATORY.blogspot.com
http://ANDRES-AGOSTINI-on.blogspot.com
http://AGOSTINI-SOLVES.blogspot.com
@AndresAgostini
@ThisSuccess
@SciCzar