Yes - we've been through all that upheaval with each revolutionary technology. It will keep repeating so long as the economy runs on profit. Once enou...
That's a very interesting observation. Having considered it for about five minutes, I'm very much inclined to agree. The client can actually have a co...
One of the issues raised by people who worry about the threat is: "What if the computers become independent and stop following orders from humans?" Yo...
Of course, I haven't kept track of their doings. TBH, I haven't really paid much attention to the workings of our own public networks. There does tend...
We may not always assess our own acts according to moral precepts at the time*, but however those acts affect other people, they will certainly judge ...
If you've ever reprimanded yourself for an unfair judgment or secretly 'taken back' a wish that someone would die, or immediately upon the impulse to ...
They have existed for some time. Democratic-minded nations have been mindful, at least since WWII, that access to unbiased and factual information is ...
For internet access, that sounds reasonable. Is it controllable? I'm pretty sure the Russians or Murdochs or somebody could hack it - though I can't q...
Fine, but it's not about public service, or information or education or impartial news reporting, and information about the facts, legalities and mech...
To what end? They said the figure was an estimate. Whether men and boys constitute 10, 15 or 20% of an 6 million, 6.5 million or 7 million, it's a sub...
Which is probably lower than the actual figure. The UN doesn't usually exaggerate. For damn sure, even if the actual number is less than estimated, it...
We tend to see men as more capable of autonomous choice; less vulnerable. That is not invariably the case, and it certainly does not hold true for abu...
It's never a "good thing" to stigmatize a classification of people, whether the definition is limited or broad. In this case, it's so broad as to incl...
I just watched the last episode of a documentary called Empire of the Word on tvo - Ontario's public television network. Chronically starved for funds...
Yes, some people are. But in the articles I've read, that concern is mixed in with the all human-directed applications to which computing power is alr...
Right. So it's not artificial intelligence you're worried about, but human cupidity. Actually, I wasn't all that 'unclear' about that. All these thing...
I didn't say anything about futility. I said it was insufficient; i.e. does not avert the danger. Specifically, that it's not even close to a comprehe...
There are humans behind every gun that kills a schoolchild, too. Is that the "danger of guns"? Yes, of-bloody-course it is! But prosecuting each perp ...
None of that is about the machine intelligence - it's all about human short-sightedness, greed and evil. Humans are already - and have for several tho...
I don't think either kind produce anything. I think discussion can't be measured in terms of productivity; its function, rather, is to stimulate thoug...
Meanwhile, on the bright side, there is a BBC documentary presenting the up-side. It's also on Knowledge Network for Canadian viewers. The BBC site is...
Thanks, it would be interesting to post here. Mind you, a 2017 article may be a little outdated for such a volatile subject. I am - somewhat, in a dis...
I tried to read that, but it was too annoying. Like most on-line periodicals now, the screen is so cluttered with flags and nags and pop-ups and frene...
Welcome to the club! We get new members every day. Dying is not a very good alternative - it doesn't solve any problems or make up for any harms you m...
Does there have to be one primary motive? With a brain this big and an evolutionary history this long, can't we have lots of different motivations and...
Not this again! Think about the soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his platoon. The firefighter who charges into a burning building to re...
Do you really think the lesson on neurological function belongs here? I'm not really qualified to teach it. They are: https://opentextbc.ca/introducti...
By communicating the sensation of a toe striking the foot of the bed all the way up the spinal cord to the brain, which then uses more nerve impulses ...
Not knowing the ultimate nature of the universe is not the same as knowing nothing at all. You can only explore and learn about the reality in which y...
So? For Him, that's all times and every time. For us, it's a microsecond, and the next microsecond, and the next. He can comprehend everything about u...
More or less, depending on the duration of "the present". But if your mind is elsewhere, where are you and where is that else where your mind is? What...
What makes you think that? You've never met a dog?* The similarity of physiologies throughout the animal kingdom make it possible to classify them (us...
Who said "human consciousness"? A cockroach has beetle consciousness; a chameleon has reptile consciousness; a shark has piscine consciousness ... a h...
I've recently re-read a couple of them. One of my favourites is Galapagos and the other is Cat's Cradle. The book is dated; the issues are eternal. (I...
Quantity is not quality. We also have bigger kidneys and absolutely enormous intestines, but they don't seem to make our waste elimination any more ef...
The differences are more superficial than the similarities. Nothing that originates and evolves on this planet, on this same 'tree of life' is entirel...
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