#singlarity

[alparising]

When you sink in the quicksand of the night Persevere 'cause I know we'll be alright Cling to me and my scars that prove it all Don't let the curtain fall

Area 11 - Curtain Fall

[thingsibookmark]

(via Virtual Workplaces Will Liberate Talent, Dissolve Borders, and Rewrite the Source Code of Innovation - Singularity HUB)

[kneegaah]

Guess Vocals by Z.A.C. NIGGAH NIGGAH NIGGAH NIGGAH NIGGAH!!!

[kneegaah]

Guess Vocals by Z.A.C. Thank You

[sincereintention]

Wedding Blues...

Big beautiful wedding. Think mum is scouting for a potential daughter in law. Going to have to eat as repulsively as I can. That should keep me single... for now.

[mfratto]

"if you are allowed [to drive manually], it would be immoral of you to drive, because the risk of you hurting yourself or another person will be far greater than if you allowed a machine to do the work." Ridiculous. Of course it will be moral to drive. Sheesh. People can drive safely today and if they are taught to do so in the future, they will be able to drive as safely as an automated car.

Drivers have been driving safely and unsafely since there have been cars on the road. The morality question comes into play when a driver--for whatever reason, drunkeness, anger, forgetfulness, impairments, etc--chooses to drive when they shouldn't OR the driver engages in dangerous activity such as texting, reading, talking on the phone while driving. I'm pretty comfortable saying it is immoral to drive for any reason while impaired or distracted because of the risk you pose to others. The assumption that automated car proponents make is that machines are somehow less prone to mistakes. The example is Google's automated car that has driven something like 300k miles with 1-2 accidents (claiming it wasn't the cars fault). That's one example of one car on roads with other cars driven by people making decisions. It's a great engineering feat and the people who built the vehicle should feel proud of their accomplishment, but one example does not extrapolate out to millions of cars. The bigger question for moralists to consider is whether is it moral to create autonomous machines that conduct dangerous activities. A car or robotic weapon has fewer constraints. Now consider that when automated systems fail, they tend to fail spectacularly. Take a look at the cascading failures Amazon has faced with their EC2 infrastructure or the flash crashes various stock markets with automated trading have suffered as recent examples of spectacular failure. These were systems designed by very smart people who had a vested interested in making sure the systems did not fail spectacularly yet for all of their hard work and planning, failures (likely unforeseeable failures) occurred and compounded each other.

The question is "knowing that automated systems fail, is it ethical to deliver them into society?"

As much as I hate to drive, I'd be loathe to hand the keys over to an automated car in my lifetime.

[franticenigma]

..[single life] ~

..can't think of a better title, sahreh.. x_x' ..it's been X months since <insert whatever happened to us here> and i'm coping.. how has been single life for me, really? ..i get to think of myself.. like, in a selfish way.. i don't have to think of someone.. i don't have to mind someone..i don't have to care for someone.. i don't have someone.. but ME ..my calendar now displays a variety of names.. which means, i get to enjoi quality time with lots of different people.. friends from way back elementary.. friends from highschool, friends from college, friends at work.. i also get a lone time for myself.. i get to do things that i want without having to ask permission or without hesitation if he might enjoi it too.. yes, there is an abundance of things to do and people to be with.. although most of the time i am overwhelmed with these things and tend to just laze around the house.. yeah, most of the time i just laze around the house - fb-ing, tumblr-ing, dl-ing, sleep-ing, etc etc etc.. do i really enjoi it? every single moment.. ..of course there will still be lapses.. there will be those moments when i will miss what we used to do.. especially the hanging around part, just the two of us.. i miss having to call someone your own [react, and you will die! *thunders* lol.].. but then again, it still feels good to finally let go.. as long as you've done your part.. and i'm reaping the fruits of that decision [i guess..] ..and oh yeah, not to mention you can now freely date other fishes whatever-is-represented-by-that-term [lol].. =) indeed... ..moving along, [franticenigma] ~