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    4 days ago

    That movie made me so mad.

    The book I, Robot is a series of short stories presenting situations where it seems like robots didn’t follow the three laws of robotics and then explaining how they were caught up in loopholes, essentially. It’s great.

    In the movie, the loophole is: “We put a second brain in the robots that doesn’t follow the three laws of robotics.”

    (I might be wrong, it’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book or seen the movie. This is just what I remember.)





  • I heard a couple of comedians make jokes about the 787 Air India crash like two days after it happened.

    They didn’t get any laughs, and even got a few mutters from the audience.

    They said something like, “the plane crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad. Maybe it should be ‘Ah-plane-is-bad.’” Or maybe, “Ah-made-a-bad-plane.” I can’t remember. Crickets.

    (Inside I wanted to tell them that the Boeing 787 has one of the best safety records of any commercial airliner. It’s not a bad plane. But obviously that isn’t funny either. And heckling is shitty.)

    Then they said, “Miraculously one man survived. He walked off the plane, over to an ambulance, pointed back at the wreckage and said, ‘Do NOT go in there!’”

    This got a few chuckles, but it was clearly uncomfortable.

    I’m not sure how we know as a group what is okay and what isn’t okay to laugh about. But usually I argue humor is a good coping mechanism.



  • And it’s on the IAEA to declare that they are indeed working on a weapons program, not speculation and assumption like yours.

    Okay. Don’t use your reason if you’d prefer not to. It does make me wonder though:

    Do you think the killing of the civilian scientists was wrong because they were civilian scientists, or because they were ostensibly working on an energy program?

    Because as I said, I’m not claiming the murders were justified, just that we ought to be honest about the why.

    There are plenty making the argument that Iran needs a nuclear weapons program to prevent exactly these types of attacks. That is intellectually honest. I’m not sure where I fall on that argument, I’d rather no one have nuclear weapons (but obviously that’s not going to happen).

    The difference between 5% and 60% enrichment is pretty huge. And the research and effort required to get there is neither cheap nor easy. If what they’re after is nuclear energy, there is absolutely no reason to continue risking the ire of the international community and the repeated attacks by Israel. They’ve had energy-level uranium for a very long time already.