Month: July 2015

Popular Science: You Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of That Killer Volkswagen Robot: ROBOLAW EXPERT RYAN CALO SAYS TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE MACHINE

Popular Science: You Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of That Killer Volkswagen Robot: ROBOLAW EXPERT RYAN CALO SAYS TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE MACHINE

But people will still fear them.. and tranhumanism, as well. Others will accept them.

The first thing I thought about when I heard the Volkswagen killer robot story was that some day in the future, if robots truly do develop their own thoughts and morality-processing ability, they could very well become purposely killers.. Machines programmable to destroy–and perhaps kill on their own.

Will there be trials of robots? Robot judges? Robot jails? Perhaps as a last resort, humans will be forced to disconnect the inner workings of the robot for a death penalty..?

Sure this is speculation.. maybe futuristic nonsense. 
But in case you haven’t seen headlines as of late, the future is now.
And robots can kill.
But can they be punished?

A total of 3,027 people have been executed by ISIS since it declared itself a state under strict Islamic law in Syria and Iraq last June, according to a new report by the UK-based group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

A total of 3,027 people have been executed by ISIS since it declared itself a state under strict Islamic law in Syria and Iraq last June, according to a new report by the UK-based group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

7 children included.. women included..

More than 5,000 people near Knoxville, Tennessee, have been evacuated after a freight train carrying “highly flammable and toxic gas” derailed and caught fire on Thursday morning.

Seven firefighters have been taken to hospital after breathing in fumes from the blaze, while a 1-mile evacuation zone has been put in place around where the train came off the tracks.

This is developing now..

A group of Mississippi ghost hunters made a scary discovery Sunday, when they were snooping around near a shuttered hospital and came upon the remains of a woman who had been abducted from her home, police said.

A group of Mississippi ghost hunters made a scary discovery Sunday, when they were snooping around near a shuttered hospital and came upon the remains of a woman who had been abducted from her home, police said.

A good article in OZY about a bomb that went off on Wall Street in 1920

A good read.. http://www.ozy.com/flashback/when-wall-street-exploded-in-1920/39815?utm_source=FBOrganic&utm_medium=Social

The Money quote:

On September 16, 1920, a bomb planted on a red horse-drawn wagon exploded into the lunchtime crowd at Wall and Broad streets. This was just outside the House of Morgan (now known as J.P. Morgan), then the world’s most powerful financial institution. The force of the explosion, which killed 38 and wounded hundreds, was strong enough to lift people off the ground and fling the mangled horse halfway down the road.

He escaped, white-faced and dazed, along with hundreds of others, as the dead lay flattened “like tenpins.”

The wagon carried 100 pounds of TNT, with 500 pounds of cast-iron bolts packed around the explosives that detonated at 12:01 p.m., when the streets were teeming with lunch-hour traffic, according to the anthology Tools of Violence: Guns, Tanks and Dirty Bombs, by Chris McNab and Hunter Keeter. To this day, nobody knows who did it or why. And the mystery has been all but forgotten, apart from the deep gouges left in buildings by the blast.