Spreading Bad Software is Immoral
From Fefe’s Internet Security Days keynote: Schlechte Software zu verbreiten ist unmoralisch. Translation: Spreading sloppy software is immoral. It’s like producing waste and dumping it into a river....
View ArticleYour Phone Should be Your Butler
A lot of people share private details with the world without being aware of it. For example, they take nude pictures with their phones (NSA keeps a copy, just in case) or they sell the phone without...
View ArticleArtificial Ethics
While watching this video, I wondered: We’re using machine learning to earn money on the stock market and to make computers understand speech. Why not ethics? Around @26:00 , Isaac talks about ways to...
View ArticleWhy Apple Sucks
People often ask my why I hate Apple products. My answer: “I’m not compatible.” I was always looking for a good example what I mean. In my hands, Apple products crash, show weird behavior or important...
View ArticleThe Benevolent AI
There is a lot of argument how AI will kill us all. Some argue that AI will see us a threat and wipe us out, just in case (the Skynet faction). Other argue AI will pamper us to death. The third group...
View ArticleKey Escrow that Might Work
Instead of encrypting everything with a single government key, several government agencies need to provide new public keys every day. The private key must be under the control of a court. Each secure...
View ArticleDark Forest is a Fairy Tale
The Dark Forest, an idea developed by Liu Cixin for his Remembrance of Earth’s Past series (also known for the first book “The Three-Body Problem” is just a fairy tale: Interesting to think about,...
View ArticleChildren can become anything they want
The difference is that some people think “they” means “the children” while other people think it means themselves.
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