Besides telling people to eat rocks and cook with gasoline, AI is ripe for decietful applicaitons. Will you walk away from fools and their money if AI can grab it for you? It has no remorse, no endemic conscience: it’s […]
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Each of us has an ethic, a way of navigating the world. My individual ethic is based on the decisions I have accrued starting in early childhood. They accumulate, subsumed, into our individual experience, and they determine consequences and future
Invitation to dig deeper Read More »
Experience seems fractal to me, neither linear nor random, but rather a collage of infinite and endlessly unfolding anamorphic recursions. The few that are proximal stimulate/trigger corresponding neurological patterns in my body and brain to make up my experience. So
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“Doctor, we only have seconds, which patient gets the kidney?” Interesting Q from the couch, critically important in real life. When it’s your own ass on the line, or a loved one’s, feelings quickly overwhelm thinking — fight, flee, freeze,
Other People’s Ethics Read More »
Applied science offers reliable repeatability, like a cooking recipe refined iteratively over time, or getting your phone settings right. Good ethical practices are similar: keep improving and adapting with as much mindfulness as you can. Like human habits, for good
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For most of us, the word “ethics” means “stop it!” Jim Carey the lifeguard shouting at a lone bather on SNL. We prefer ethics as a tool, not a cudgel. When we were kids, adults came out of the blue
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