Category: Dehumanization
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Satellites, photos, Earth, humans.
The WorldView-3 satellite, which launched on August 13, has sent back its first images. The new satellite can see to a resolution of 31 centimeters. That means each pixel of the camera captures one square foot of land, which is sharp enough to see home plate at Yankee Stadium, to map crops by pattern and…
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Science and the New Dark Ages...
Just in case you were looking for some ideas for your next dystopian novel… in a new feature, the BBC reports on ideas for combating anthropogenic climate change by engineering humans to use less resources. How about giving people patches that would make them allergic to meat? As someone who is intolerant to alcohol, I…
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Wikipedia, robot writers, void era...
You might think writing 10,000 articles per day would be impossible. But not for a Swede named Sverker Johansson. He created a computer program that has written a total of 2.7 million articles, making Johansson the most prolific author, by far, on the "internet's encyclopedia." His contributions account for 8.5 percent of the articles on…
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AI, algorithms, managers, dehumanization...
An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could. (1) We believe we are just matter. So why does it matter that a lifeless matter dictates what we do? We believe we are just flesh and bones. So…
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BE AWARE: Pedophilia in modern era... The way to acceptance ?!?
From the child abuse inquiry of the British government (1) (something Thatcher knew) to the child sexual abuse scandal of the Catholic Church (2), the issue is already on our hands: How can we protect the children from assaults like this? Well, recently a conference held by the University of Cambridge gave the "solution": Do nothing! Because...…
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