I cannot recommend this enough. A true, honest, and sober look at the choices we have ahead of us as a species. (Author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, two books I highly recommend).
Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari
I forget sometimes how much I love early IDM.
This song always reminds me.
A smooth, syncopated ambience that brought the analogue machines to life.
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#CoSo just tipped over 12K users, in like 5 weeks. Merry Christmas.
Context: After ONE YEAR Twitter had 16K users.
Math is awesome.
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But even so, this is something *some* people greatly fear and will make political grandstanding about to further agendas, or even just simply to make money off the controversy.
Don’t be distracted from the ramifications of the coming tsunami of innovation by the small, passing, thunderstorms of those that continue to look toward the past with harmful nostalgia.
There are better, and real, questions to answer, and they are being considered right now.
Making a global standard for these kinds of decisions is a good thing, but this also can be seen as another step closer to a globally-shared culture, further elevating GLOBAL society above towns/countries/divisions.
The same has already occurred with the banking system, the global telephone system, and of course the most impactful to date, the Internet.
There will be some growing pains, some controversies, but the currently HUGE number of people that are hurt or die in car accidents globally will plummet-to literally ALL TIME LOWS.
Cars have only become safer as the years have gone by, and this will be a quantum leap of safety in (probably) less than 20 years' time.
Autonomous vehicles know a lot more about themselves than previous cars did: They are supercomputers on wheels for the most part). As such, they understand the capabilities of their own systems better than the vast majority of human drivers.
They won't exceed operational limits the way we all have in the past with our own cars - whether intentional or otherwise.
Also, they don't get drunk
or high,
or sleepy,
or distracted by text messages,
or emails,
or Facebook.
Now – a reality check:
There will be FAR FAR FEWER deaths attributed to transportation accidents once that even a 20% minority of moving vehicles on the road are autonomous (trucking will be early adopters, Teslas and Benzs can already drive themselves NOW, etc.).
This is because autonomous vehicles have also been coded by a team of programmers to keep safe distances and speeds relative to other cars and people.
No business, organization, or government will have their own standard.
This "shared-standard" also will certainly be demanded by the Insurance industry players so that it will greatly reduce the internal actuarial overhead of a huge number of standards and variables to calculate and maintain for the coming autonomous machine insurance categories.
There is no right answer in all cases to uncountable scenarios - So there is a consortium of experts from many fields coming up with a shared, consensus-based standard against which to code all autonomous system algorithms going forward (hopefully).
After some trials in the real world, negative and positive outcomes are observed, and case law begins to fill in the question marks, it is more than likely that a single, shared algorithm for this kind of decision will be a single global standard: