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I fear your views of AI are pretty much outdated. They pre-date in any case neural networks. What you are…
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The University of Idaho killings
On November 29, last Tuesday (I had posted my first post on the case on Saturday the 26th), I wrote the following in a comment :
Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the victims, readily responds to reporters, sometimes making rather cryptic statements.
Unlike the other parents who, with the exception of the vigil for the four victims where some spoke out, Goncalves continues to be extremely forthcoming, with many commentators admiring his “composure” just weeks after his daughter’s murder. It is true that his understated frown contrasts with the tear-streaked face of Madison Moden’s father, for … Read the rest
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“Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, Chapter 4 of a forthcoming book: Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control
Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control, Luca Possati (ed.)Chapter 4: “Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, by Paul Jorion
For eighty years now speculative thinkers have debated Isaac Asimov’s “3 Laws of robotics”, a bundle of 3 simple interlocking directions supposedly sufficient for regulating the behaviour of robots and making their daily interaction with human beings both useful and unproblematic.
Although Asimov’s 3 laws have been the centre of profuse and vivid exchanges, they’ve been entirely ignored when engineers started to implement actual robots or “intelligent machines” broadly speaking.
The reason for such a surprising disconnect … Read the rest
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Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name? by Paul Jorion
What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?
Paul Jorion *
* ETHICS – EA 7446, Université catholique de Lille, 60 Bd Vauban, 59800 Lille, FranceSubject: Foundations of mathematics
Cite as: https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2022/04/09/unilog-2022-what-makes-a-demonstration-worthy-of-the-name-by-paul-jorion/… Read the rest
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This was what Brexit was preparing and enabling the British to do, by Duncan Sutherland
Last night I dreamed a dreadful dream. The world as we knew it ceased to be when a global pestilence descended upon it while its climate changed disastrously and uncontrollably. Standing among the ruins of the ancient Roman forum, the leader of the British revealed that he had had a vision. He had perceived that climate change was like unto the decline and fall of the Roman empire, the collapse of a civilized world.Himself instrumental in undermining the present-day European empire by releasing the British from its grasp, he now contemplated the chaos and collapse to come when wave … Read the rest
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Porto – *Transhumanism and the Future of Humanity* Conference, October 21st and 22d 2021
*Transhumanism and the Future of Humanity*The abstract of the talk I’ll give.
When Max More describes “transhumanism as a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values”, a strong platform is there clearly defined.
As much however as transhumanism may appear as a tool at what may be labelled as Plan A, i.e. preventing the extinction of the human race on Planet Earth, it provides as well a roadmap for … Read the rest
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Brexit and Aliens, by Duncan Sutherland
As has been remarked upon already, Brexit will force you to carry a passport and be subject to immigration control at the UK border like the generality of foreign citizens who have no special privileges in respect of admissibility to England’s green and pleasant land. I say England rather than Great Britain or even the United Kingdom, because UK immigration control is based essentially upon an English attitude towards foreigners and an English tradition in keeping their numbers under control. Furthermore, as you know, England’s northern appendage, Scotland, has no wish to impose Brexit immigration controls but is dragged into … Read the rest
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The State of Play, By Blake McInerney
The State of Play
Dogma, theory, law instruct us all
There’s them that’s got and them that’s not
That, without the readies or the wherewithal,
People are nothing but fodder, fit just for the pot.So strip Creation, Nature, down to the bone,
privatise life ‘til all expire, unbeknown
to all ( save God, whose trappings we now own ! )
become, everlastingly so, free :
free to sanctify inequality,
free to worship Money and Self alone
free to crown the human ape-baboon
future Queens and Kings of Mars or Moon.Free to oppress and dispossess the poor,
Making Abrahamic … Read the rest
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Forum.eu – The First Year of The Plague. Where Do We Stand?, March 3d 2021
… Read the restOn Forum.eu. Available as well in French, German, Spanish, Greek and Polish.
Europe and the West have not been able to deliver so far, in contrast to the Chinese, who have been better on this front.
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The Covid-19 pandemic started over a year ago. Time now for an assessment of how our Western governments reacted to what we more realistically called a plague rather than a crisis in the not so distant past.
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Paul Jorion speaks at the Insurance Industry session at the AI4People Summit 2020
You won’t fail noticing that Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, former Portuguese Socialist minister, and I are essentially on the same wavelength.
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