Ethics
Panoticon
The panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates being able to tell whether they are being watched.
Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times. Thus, the inmates are effectively compelled to regulate their own behaviour. The architecture consists of a rotunda with an inspection house at its centre. From the centre the manager or staff of the institution are able to watch the inmates. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums, but he devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison. It is his prison that is now most widely meant by the term "panopticon".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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Radical Transparency
How Ethics Can Help You Make Better Decisions | Michael Schur | TED
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Ship of Theseus
The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object that has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. According to legend, Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, had rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped on a ship to Delos. Every year, the Athenians commemorated this legend by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honor Apollo. The question was raised by ancient philosophers: After several centuries of maintenance, if every part of the Ship of Theseus had been replaced, one at a time, was it still the same ship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
AI Ethics
Double Exponential Progress - The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023 - YouTube
Social Media, Web2 Problems
- Information Overload
- Addiction
- Doomscrolling
- Influencer Culture
- Sexualization of kids
- Qanon
- Shortened attention spans
- Polarization
- Bots, DeepFakes
- Cult factories
- Fake News
- Breakdown of Democracy
AI in 2023
- Reality collapse
- Fake everything
- Trust collapse
- Collapse of law, contracts
- Automated fake religions
- Exponential blackmail
- Automated Cyberweapons
- Automated exploitation of code
- Automated lobbying
- Biology automation
- Exponential scams
- A-Z testing of everything
- Synthetic relationships
- AlphaPersuade