The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
IBM Buzz Equals Revenues: The Breakthrough Assumption I am no wizard of finance. I have kept track of money for my Cub Scout troop. I do understand this chart from Google Finance: The blue column shows that revenue is going nowhere, maybe even trending down. The red line shows IBM’s profit margin which is flat. …
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Machine Ethics Interfaces Melanie Swan Machine ethics is a term used in different ways. The basic use is in the sense of people attempting to instill some sort of human-centric ethics or morality in the machines we build like robots, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence (Wallach 2010) so that machines do not harm humans either …
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The co-intelligent satisfaction of needs All the activities of life can be viewed as efforts to satisfy fundamental needs. The specific things we think we want or desire are actually best viewed as attempts to satisfy those more fundamental needs that are universal and can be satisfied in so many different ways. However, some “satisfiers” …
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Too many humanitarian crises, not enough global resources Commentary: An overwhelming number of crises means the international community cannot respond well. WASHINGTON — Humanitarian crises in the world today — Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan and now Gaza — all demand immediate and massive humanitarian response. The crises are not only large-scale, affecting …
I have had a blast developing an Open Source Everything Hub proposal for a major university outside the USA. The article that presents the proposal to the academic and policy worlds is under development and will be ready by 15 September. It’s working title is Open Source Everything, Big Data & True Cost Economics: Designing …
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Building the Virtues Control Panel J. Hughes Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, 28 July 2014
Russell Crowe 4.0 out of 5 stars Weak Odd Beginning, Ends Well — a Solid Four, July 31, 2014 This is an art video, not a science video. It is an artistic interpretation the Bible Belt has gone nuts over, to no useful end. I find that on balance, while the movie has almost no …
