Rules & Politics

Laws, regulators, governments and who is actually in charge of AI.

  • The FTC Should Regulate Bots, Confirm Identity

    tldr; Protection from bots on the Internet is about Consumer Protection. Consumer Protection is the primary mission of the FTC. The Federal Trade Commission should regulate use of bots to…

  • A Reasonable ask for Social Media Sites

    No more bots. They must be shut down completely. The value aspect of highly personal social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc is that a substantial part of their content…

  • Automatic for The People

    Exercise: enter a contemplative state. Technology is considered to be mature if it stops being considered a technology at all, and becomes part of the fabric of our existence. Consider…

  • Space is Going To Eat Your Lunch

    It’s not that all humans are simply equal. It’s that, compared to the rest of the Universe, we are equal. It starts with understanding the ability to form ad hoc…

  • A Government must Protect its Members

    https://gizmodo.com/so-you-automated-your-coworkers-out-of-a-job-1831584839 Brian Merchant at Gizmodo has been writing about automation and its human impact. It is, as you would imagine, the story of people losing their jobs because others are…

  • Running the Pattern

    The Singleton Pattern is generated by your entire brain for some other part of your self to consume. What consumes these frames is not for this model to answer, so…

  • The Second Law…

    If I were to propose a second law of robotics, a law for humans to follow regarding AI and what is allowable, it would be this: Every action taken by…

  • Law vs. the End of All Things: The First New Law of AI

    The Law is a concept of rules and regulations to guide humans to act within social norms. Laws, and war, and memes, are pretty much the only way we have…

  • Rights

    “Rights” are a concept that Western people have embraced for the last few hundred years, and the concept of God-given Rights to life, liberty, etc are at the root of…

  • I, inc.

    Everything is information, organization waves in the structure of the cosmos. But don’t be confused by the buzzing sounds: not all information is of the same value. In the same…

  • Andrew Yang 2020 – Running as the Anti-Robot Progressive POTUS Candidate

    If you’re not aware of this gentleman and his positions, you probably should be. His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming – New York Times “To fend off the…