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How Much do You Have to Hide?
When confronted with surveillance the usual reply is “nothing to hide.” This answer is wrong. Let me tell you a story. For over one hundred years, the city of Amsterdam had a census. They know your...
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Paris
The foundation of civilization is the ability of the community to withstand their own death wishes and murderous instincts — André Glucksmann (source; my own translation) There are people who will tell...
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Technical Solutions to Amok Runs
Every now and then, an idiot realizes that his life isn’t exciting enough and decides to do something about it. Note: I apply humor to horror. Some people (I think of them as idiots as well, just a...
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Risks of Artificial Intelligence
There is a growing group of people arguing how AIs will one day kill us, either by loving or hating us to death. I find their arguments interesting but lacking an important factor: AI is created by (a...
View ArticleYour Phone Should be Your Butler
A lot of people share private details with the world without being aware of it. For example, they take nude pictures with their phones (NSA keeps a copy, just in case) or they sell the phone without...
View ArticleArtificial Ethics
While watching this video, I wondered: We’re using machine learning to earn money on the stock market and to make computers understand speech. Why not ethics? Around @26:00 , Isaac talks about ways to...
View ArticleDark Forest is a Fairy Tale
The Dark Forest, an idea developed by Liu Cixin for his Remembrance of Earth’s Past series (also known for the first book “The Three-Body Problem” is just a fairy tale: Interesting to think about,...
View ArticleChildren can become anything they want
The difference is that some people think “they” means “the children” while other people think it means themselves.
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