Buckminster Fuller - MediaWiki: " * 'You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by the computer.'
* 'While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.'"
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Danny Hillis on Aristotle as a tutor, and how to recapture the dynamic
This is really a nifty exploration of the idea, not terribly new to me, but it's nice to see it all in one place.
This is really a nifty exploration of the idea, not terribly new to me, but it's nice to see it all in one place.
MSNBC - Airship groomed for flight to edge of space
I can't even tell you how cool this is. Any private company with the balls to predict a permanent station at 130,000 feet with industrial capability, well, I just have to meet this guy.
Looks like it's mostly volunteers. That gives me some hope, as to how much can be done without funding.
I love their nomenclature.
I'm going to investigate this a bit, I've always been fascinated by Buckminster Fuller's Cloud 9 idea. I have no idea whether it would really work or not. maybe these people would know.
I wonder if they've investigated tetrahedal truss structures for dirigibles.
I can't even tell you how cool this is. Any private company with the balls to predict a permanent station at 130,000 feet with industrial capability, well, I just have to meet this guy.
Looks like it's mostly volunteers. That gives me some hope, as to how much can be done without funding.
I love their nomenclature.
I'm going to investigate this a bit, I've always been fascinated by Buckminster Fuller's Cloud 9 idea. I have no idea whether it would really work or not. maybe these people would know.
I wonder if they've investigated tetrahedal truss structures for dirigibles.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot & the 3
Laws of Robotics.
A campaign by some well intentioned folk trying to hook into whatever publicity the upcoming blockbuster movie may spill into actual analysis of the complex topics of intelligent creations, and their relationship to us.
The Three Laws were a thematic element that Asimov used to create dramatic situations. It's basically building the capability for paradox into intelligent systems through explicit absolute statements.
They were never intended as a workable system. The only nearly workable Law was the Zeroth Law, which killed it's inventor, and was never explored to my satisfaction.
More horribly than this, the movie upcoming appears not only to ignore this issue, but posit some kind of magical subversion of the Laws, rather than the issues arising from them. In Asimov's stories, the robots never break their Laws, ever, in any way. But the interaction of the Laws and reality cause massively silly and evil things to happen, despite their inviolate nature.
proscriptive Laws of this nature are of course insufficient for a self modifying system of any kind. even an unintelligent one.
This is the death of Girard, for those familiar with the Asimov mythos.
Laws of Robotics.
A campaign by some well intentioned folk trying to hook into whatever publicity the upcoming blockbuster movie may spill into actual analysis of the complex topics of intelligent creations, and their relationship to us.
The Three Laws were a thematic element that Asimov used to create dramatic situations. It's basically building the capability for paradox into intelligent systems through explicit absolute statements.
They were never intended as a workable system. The only nearly workable Law was the Zeroth Law, which killed it's inventor, and was never explored to my satisfaction.
More horribly than this, the movie upcoming appears not only to ignore this issue, but posit some kind of magical subversion of the Laws, rather than the issues arising from them. In Asimov's stories, the robots never break their Laws, ever, in any way. But the interaction of the Laws and reality cause massively silly and evil things to happen, despite their inviolate nature.
proscriptive Laws of this nature are of course insufficient for a self modifying system of any kind. even an unintelligent one.
This is the death of Girard, for those familiar with the Asimov mythos.
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