Morlock Elloi on Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:03:14 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> rage against the machine


This is deeply ideological and political issue, not technical one. Inserting code written by middlemen between humans and reality empowers only the middlemen. Humans are presented by fantasy that adheres to reality when and in degree being decided by the middlemen.

There is one small step between this and removing all agency from humans (if not already done). It's like company wants to sack someone, first they make sure that the sackee's job is irrelevant (someone else controls and does it) and the sackee cannot do damage.

Well, you are being sacked.

Note that autonomous vehicles are becoming affordable assassination instruments. It would cost a fortune a decade ago to create robotic suicide vehicle bomber, so humans were used. Today anyone with basic skills can buy one of these and hack the controls. It's 100% software job. Add some ML and the vehicle can pick victims on its own ("dark skinned males" or "carrying yoga mat" or "MAGA hat", etc.)


" But Boeing isn’t planning to overhaul its training procedures. And
neither the F.A.A., nor the European Union Aviation Safety Agency
<https://www.easa.europa.eu/>, are proposing additional simulator
training for pilots, according to a person familiar with the
deliberations. Instead, the regulators and Boeing agree that the best
way to inform pilots about the new software is through additional
computer-based training, which can be done on their personal computers."

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