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The Quest to End Poverty
Poverty is a huge problem, even for those not affected. At best, the sight is disturbing, at worst, the sicknesses bred by many people crammed together don’t care much for bank accounts – even when it...
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How Much do You Have to Hide?
When confronted with surveillance the usual reply is “nothing to hide.” This answer is wrong. Let me tell you a story. For over one hundred years, the city of Amsterdam had a census. They know your...
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Riddle
It takes years and hundreds, sometimes thousands of people to build but only one person and a moment to destroy me. What am I? Answer (link goes to Wikipedia) Tagged: Fun, Psychology
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Paris
The foundation of civilization is the ability of the community to withstand their own death wishes and murderous instincts — André Glucksmann (source; my own translation) There are people who will tell...
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Random Conway’s Game of Life
Recently, I followed a discussion about free will. The starting point was the question whether a million exact clones which are placed in the same situations would shows the same behavior and whether...
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Good and Bad People
Good and bad people say “something needs to be done.” The difference is that bad people think “no matter the cost” while good people always keep in mind that change alone isn’t “good” as such. It can...
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Technical Solutions to Amok Runs
Every now and then, an idiot realizes that his life isn’t exciting enough and decides to do something about it. Note: I apply humor to horror. Some people (I think of them as idiots as well, just a...
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Risks of Artificial Intelligence
There is a growing group of people arguing how AIs will one day kill us, either by loving or hating us to death. I find their arguments interesting but lacking an important factor: AI is created by (a...
View ArticleSpreading 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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