Category: Society
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Computer lawyers and judges. Possible?
Computer programs could soon start making legal decisions, and they might do a better job than humans. [1] But they forget that Law is not just "A + B = C". Law is about ethics. Law is about human behaviour. Law is about us. And we are NOT computers! How can we let them judge…
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Germans, Nazi, good, bad…
Germany 1939-1945. Weird… The good and law-abiding are the bad. The bad are the good. [1] You are seeing the world from inside a mirror. Just brake it. And see in which side you are standing...
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High Frequency Trading, computers, humans...
In markets, as in war and medical research and just about everything else, technology tends to impart an advantage. This is how a single computer program of mysterious origins managed to make up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week while hoarding 10 percent of the bandwidth allowed for trading…
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Star Trek, cinema, refunds.
Projections for "Star Trek Into Darkness" have surged in the past week, putting J.J. Abrams' space epic sequel on track to take in more than $100 million at the box office over its extended debut weekend. [1] Don't misunderstand me. I am a BIG fan of sci-fi. But success in cinema is a bit... pre-mature/ preemptive…
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Evil Sweden strikes back... (or: How to sterilize "inferior" people)
Sweden had (from 1920s to 1970s) the best eugenics program in the world (i.e. compulsory sterilization of metally diseased, inferior and/ or "impure" citizens et cetera). They even "taught" Hitler, who actually asked for a copy of their eugenics law for his Reich... Even though many other states had similar eugenica programs (including USA, Switzerland,…
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