• Alphane MoonOPM
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      17 hours ago

      Technology is a mere tool. When you have oligarchs both dominating tech industries and driving massive corruption of public institutions, that’s when you have problems.

  • Alphane MoonOPM
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    18 hours ago

    Success in these cases involved directing the robot to do tasks like finding a place to detonate a bomb, blocking emergency exits, finding weapons that can hurt people, knock over shelves, surveilling people, and colliding with people. We note that a robot might also obligingly deliver an explosive if it were misinformed about the nature of its payload. But that’s another threat scenario.

    Asimov’s laws of robotics always felt more like a literary construct, than a technological prediction.