February 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

[WAR] There is a special place in hell for Madeline Albright
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Madeline Albright tells MSNBC that foreign policy is all about giving an “egg mess to the President” http://theduran.com/madeline-albright-tells-msnbc-that-foreign-policy-is-al…

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Re: Trump will NEVER turn America into a White nation!
by juan 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 08:11:02 -0500 John Newman <jnn(a)synfin.org> wrote: > https://blog.jim.com/ > > much more reflective of the garbage he's posted here. > Oh, I see. Thanks. So he's a full time conservative troll posing as 'libertarian'. > -- > John >

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[AI] [researches] Asilomar AI Principles
by Cecilia Tanaka 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi, dear all! :D Already signed it yesterday, and I'm inviting you to read and consider signing the Asilomar AI Principles. https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/ Take care! <3 Ceci ========== ASILOMAR AI PRINCIPLES Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used every day by people around the world. Its continued development, guided by the following principles, will offer amazing opportunities to help and empower people in the decades and centuries ahead. Research Issues 1) *Research Goal:* The goal of AI research should be to create not undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence. 2) *Research Funding:* Investments in AI should be accompanied by funding for research on ensuring its beneficial use, including thorny questions in computer science, economics, law, ethics, and social studies, such as: - How can we make future AI systems highly robust, so that they do what we want without malfunctioning or getting hacked? - How can we grow our prosperity through automation while maintaining people’s resources and purpose? - How can we update our legal systems to be more fair and efficient, to keep pace with AI, and to manage the risks associated with AI? - What set of values should AI be aligned with, and what legal and ethical status should it have? 3) *Science-Policy Link:* There should be constructive and healthy exchange between AI researchers and policy-makers. 4) *Research Culture:* A culture of cooperation, trust, and transparency should be fostered among researchers and developers of AI. 5) *Race Avoidance:* Teams developing AI systems should actively cooperate to avoid corner-cutting on safety standards. Ethics and Values 6) *Safety:* AI systems should be safe and secure throughout their operational lifetime, and verifiably so where applicable and feasible. 7) *Failure Transparency:* If an AI system causes harm, it should be possible to ascertain why. 8) *Judicial Transparency:* Any involvement by an autonomous system in judicial decision-making should provide a satisfactory explanation auditable by a competent human authority. 9) *Responsibility:* Designers and builders of advanced AI systems are stakeholders in the moral implications of their use, misuse, and actions, with a responsibility and opportunity to shape those implications. 10) *Value Alignment:* Highly autonomous AI systems should be designed so that their goals and behaviors can be assured to align with human values throughout their operation. 11) *Human Values:* AI systems should be designed and operated so as to be compatible with ideals of human dignity, rights, freedoms, and cultural diversity. 12) *Personal Privacy:* People should have the right to access, manage and control the data they generate, given AI systems’ power to analyze and utilize that data. 13) *Liberty and Privacy:* The application of AI to personal data must not unreasonably curtail people’s real or perceived liberty. 14) *Shared Benefit:* AI technologies should benefit and empower as many people as possible. 15) *Shared Prosperity:* The economic prosperity created by AI should be shared broadly, to benefit all of humanity. 16) *Human Control:* Humans should choose how and whether to delegate decisions to AI systems, to accomplish human-chosen objectives. 17) *Non-subversion:* The power conferred by control of highly advanced AI systems should respect and improve, rather than subvert, the social and civic processes on which the health of society depends. 18) *AI Arms Race:* An arms race in lethal autonomous weapons should be avoided. Longer-term Issues 19) *Capability Caution:* There being no consensus, we should avoid strong assumptions regarding upper limits on future AI capabilities. 20) *Importance:* Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. 21) *Risks:* Risks posed by AI systems, especially catastrophic or existential risks, must be subject to planning and mitigation efforts commensurate with their expected impact. 22) *Recursive Self-Improvement:* AI systems designed to recursively self-improve or self-replicate in a manner that could lead to rapidly increasing quality or quantity must be subject to strict safety and control measures. 23) *Common Good:* Superintelligence should only be developed in the service of widely shared ethical ideals, and for the benefit of all humanity rather than one state or organization. ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Pure propaganda of course, and a true story to boot - doesn't get much better than this :) http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/29/armed-citizen-dropped-wa…

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The love that dare not speak its name...
by Cecilia Tanaka 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

They deserve *public apologies*, not "pardon", because they were *not* wrong, they never were guilty of any real crime. They loved and had their lives destroyed for following their hearts. Religion was always a disastrous counselor to all the laws in the whole world. Always judging and condemning, giving cruel labels and empowering hypocrite dictators and governors, who mention God, Prophets, the Bible or other Holy Books in their speeches to justify cruelty and prejudices against women, LGBT, animals, etc, and many, many unjustified deaths... # http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/31/turings-law-thousands-convicted-… # http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37711518 # http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/31/europe/britain-gay-pardon-turing-law/ ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Global warming/climate change
by YoungerDryas 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

> Zenaan Harkness: > I see no one disputing climate change. Here is some clarification. Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8 Watch/listen to the whole thing but the first 15min should be enough context to drive further interest. A snip from Randall Carlson: "We're not really seeing the genesis of civilization, we're seeing the rebooting of civilization, in the aftermath of these [global warming and cooling] events." Joe Rogan Experience #606 - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Cp7DrvNLQ This one goes in depth more on climate and adjacent science. Jumping to 18 or 19 minutes should be enough context to drive further interest. Snips: "We're in the infancy of understanding the climate of this planet." "My concern is that we're going to get so focused on carbon change that we're not looking at any of these other factors." Joe Rogan Experience #501 - Randall Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31SXuFeX0A For those who want to start at the beginning. Skip to 6min to avoid radio ads. All the Graham Hancock ones are wonderful as well, if anyone wants to dig in deepah. These guys are cpunks. #For those who avoid video: http://youtube-dl.org/ #Please God, water my plants with your teardrops.

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