A word on torture
In a world that’s going to the dogs it’s reassuring to see that the defenders of ‘an alternative protocol for high value detainees’ actually believed in it. Heaven help us had they turned out to be...
View ArticleBeware – Dangerous Robots!
Dan Kahan of the Cultural Cognition Project has been thinking about the possible ways of reacting to robots that kill. It’s a relatively new set of technologies, but what happens when AI merges with...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Autonomous robots
Further to a recent post about the ethics of autonomous robots, it seems military robots are not the only kind that can kill, allbeit by ‘mistake’. In Japan there are already robots that feed the...
View ArticleTwo kinds of tales, one true and one false
More on truth and lies: ‘There are two kinds of tales, one true and one false,’ Socrates claims in Plato’s Republic (trans A.D. Lindsay, 1935, London: Dent, p. 376). ‘The depth of consciousness created...
View ArticleRobot Morality
Colin Allen spoke about Robot morality at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. This relates to The Ethics of Autonomous Robots.
View ArticleWhat kind of duty is called for in Call of Duty?
Games have several important effects. One is that they train us to accept the premise of the game. If I don’t accept that a knight moves two spaces forwards and one sideways, I simply can’t play chess....
View ArticleTempting fate in schools: contrived randomness as educational policy
Australian economist Andrew Leigh has entered into public discussion with Noel Pearson about Aboriginal inequality by proposing that randomised trials should be initiated for those educational...
View ArticleWarmer is better!
Well into the Twentieth Century the slate industry of North Wales was the world’s largest. It roofed the buildings of the world and left a huge scar on the beautiful landscape of what is now the...
View ArticleScience communication and conservative values
Roger Scruton‘s recent article in Prospect Magazine provides an interesting illustration of what Dan Kahn and Chris Mooney have been discussing on their respective blogs. (Kahn blogs regularly now at...
View ArticleEating less meat?
“Our thinking has created problems which cannot be solved by that same level of thinking,” (Attributed to Albert Einstein in Leonard D. Goodstein and J. William Pfeiffer, eds, The 1985 Annual:...
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