HeyJaredBob Simmons
Graduated from UT in 1964. Viet era vet. filmmaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTZNo8rgORU
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The Village Crank. (opens the original)
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Who Will Put the Bell on the Kitty? (opens the original)
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There is an old fable about a colony of mice who are fed up with being eaten by the cat.They hold a meeting and come up with a great idea: Let’s put a bell around the cat’s neck. Then everybody will hear him coming.Cool idea.Until one old mouse asks the obvious question.Who is going to bell the fucking cat?We have reached approximately that point with artificial intelligence.It isn’t hard to draw up rules for ethical AI. Transparency. Privacy. Fairness. No secret surveillance. The right to chall
If Men Were Angels: A Constitution for AI (opens the original)
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James Madison never met a computer. He never argued with a chatbot or wondered whether the machine on his desk knew more about him than his wife did.But he understood the problem.Power.More particularly, what happens when too much of it gets into too few hands.Madison and the people who cobbled together our Constitution were not starry-eyed about human nature. They didn’t design a government on the assumption that good and honorable men would always be running it.Quite the opposite.They assumed
A Constitution for the Republic of AI (opens the original)
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Quite the opposite.“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” he wrote. Give human beings power and sooner or later somebody will abuse it. Madison’s answer wasn’t to find better rulers. It was to divide the power. Make one bunch of ambitious people keep an eye on another bunch.Artificial intelligence may need a constitution for much the same reason.Most fears about AI concentrate on the machine. Will it become too intelligent? Will it deceive us? Will it somehow escape human control?But th
Down There (opens the original)
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Prodrome is the right word. And I think this belongs at the front of the novel.Not “preview.” A preview promises samples of what’s coming. This is doing something more interesting: it’s showing us the terminal condition before showing us the disease. “Prodrome” ordinarily means the early signs that precede the full manifestation of an illness. Here you’ve perversely put the graveyard first, but the passage itself becomes the warning symptom for everything we’re about to read.And the traceroute/p
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