#ethics
Is a dirty #peace better than a moral #war?
Context: Every war that is currently being waged on this planet.
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Barbarism vs. Civilization
Don't fall for the #propaganda in the fight against terror. In the last #war in #Afghanistan, you could separate terrorists from #freedom fighters by the fact that one group was supported by the #CIA and the other was not.
#terrorism #meme #politics #civilization #barbarism #military #news #society
♲ Digital Resistance News - 2024-02-24 16:09:17 GMT
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Perhaps you would be kind enough to allow me to declare a few theses on the #geopolitics of the U.S.
1) If #Ukraine loses the war, it would be a step backwards towards a liberal #world order. Autocracies would be on the rise and #China could feel empowered to invade #Taiwan.
2) If the #West had not supported Ukraine, the #war would already be over. It seems immoral to only half-heartedly #support Ukraine and thereby prolong the suffering for #power games.
3) If #Biden now denies Ukraine #military support for tactical #election maneuvers and fails to deliver urgently needed #ammunition, then his office is more important to him than the well-being of the world and the #future of #freedom.
4) If Biden were to supply the ammunition and thus lose the election, not only would #Trump win but #democracy would be damaged.
5) Geopolitics is a cynical #dilemma that costs many lives.
#nato #europe #Russia #politics #problem #humanRights #justice #cynicism #terror #business #warfare #ethics
Why isn't this the #headline on page one of every #media company?
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fabvarmo0xw
#Assange #news #war #politics #freedom #journalism #press #democracy #society #ethics #humanRights #government #Wikileaks
Artificial #intelligence is making critical #health care decisions.
Advancements in #AI have created big gaps in what the #FDA regulates. It does nothing to review tools like chatbots, for example, and it has no #authority over systems that summarize #doctors’ notes and perform other critical administrative tasks.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/18/artificial-intelligence-health-care-fda-00141768
#technology #future #news #ethics #problem #politics #security #system
Whenever you accuse the other side of inhumanity, please remember that this is what each side thinks of the other.
So the US Army, within the ethical guidelines of US foreign policy, has brought democracy to Iraq. However, only the terrible war crimes of #AbuGhraib are etched in the memory of the Arab world.
The Red Army is merely trying to liberate Ukraine from Nazis who are allegedly supported by the CIA to poison the brothers in Ukraine.
The only ones who can really accuse us of inhumanity are the American natives. Objectively speaking, the First World War began with the discovery of America. Don't think it would have been different times back then. The authorities knew exactly what an unethical massacre they were causing among the natives.
The New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians were issued on November 20, 1542, by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (King Charles I of Spain) and regard the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws
#humanrights #humanity #war #terror #slavery #ethics #moral #politics #future #Genocide #colonization #crime #problem
#AI for #dating
Source: https://twitter.com/biblikz/status/1752335415812501757
I proposed to a girl with whom #ChatGPT had been communicating for me for a year. For this purpose, the neural network re-communicated with other 5239 girls, which it eliminated as unnecessary and left only one. I will share how I made such a system, what were the problems and what came out with the other girls.
#ethics #communication #software #technology #chat #relationship #news
The dialectic of freedom
So if freedom is our highest good and we cannot do without it without giving up our existence as human beings, how do we deal with it? Freedom also means danger.
This is the confusing ambivalence inherent in freedom. If we cannot curtail freedom without losing it, but as human beings we also cannot live without a contract that puts the law of the strongest in its place and prevents arbitrariness and vigilante justice, then what can we do to solve this paradox of freedom?
Since Aristotle, there has been a rational, scientific method for humanity to live neither in immaturity nor in arbitrariness. Ethics. In contrast to morality, which is its own negation and describes the state of the other, the despicable, as immorality, ethics is the scientific study of habits, customs and practices.
Even the pre-Socratic Sophists considered it intolerable that human beings, as rational beings endowed with free will, should be guided only by traditions, conventions and sets of rules.
Aristotle elevates this to the status of a science that allows us to rationally, empirically develop and repeatedly negotiate a social contract. Ethics presupposes man as fundamentally rational and capable of reflection. If he were not, he would never have been able to leave the realm of naïve sensuality and mysticism and, like an animal, would merely be at the mercy of his drives and instincts.
The basis of ethics is virtue. Contrary to the claims in revelations and in despotisms, there are no transcendent rules laid down before human reason. Moses' 10 Commandments contradict all science and are unethical. Not in their content, for that is to be negotiated, but in their God-given immutability.
The constitutions that we expect today as the basis of a modern, enlightened society did not come into being by the grace of God or through the brainwave of a single person. They were fought for and negotiated in a historical process. Our living together is a result of this ethical process.
But what does that mean for a globalised, digitalised world in transition? A world in which nation states no longer play a role (even if everyone clings to them in panic), in which language barriers disappear and permanent real-time communication takes place?
What can be clearly said is that a radical change is taking place. That the old rules, laws and constitutions, that the old social contract has to be renegotiated. Ethics is therefore the science of the hour!
The Marxists in the 19th century already tried to create a world ethic. They called it internationalism, a word that already bears nationalism in its name. The situation in the 21st century is different, arbitrary borders are dissolving, a real world community is emerging.
And in order to master this, to develop a world ethic, we need tools that enable us to do this. These must be, in the Marxian sense, tools of self-empowerment. Digital structures must not be in the hands of individuals or companies or nations. The structure must be free.
That an ethical basis for digitalisation must be created was clear to smart, rational people from the very beginning. The basis of the information age and the digital transformation is based on software. In addition to the proprietary systems and programmes that still dominate today, open source software emerged early on. Software that belongs to no one, that can be further developed by everyone and that guarantees full freedom and is perfectly suited as an ethical tool of a new society.
Open source software is therefore not a technical phenomenon, but an ethical, political one. A structure for our future.
FULL TEXT ----> HERE! https://undeadnetwork.de/bookstack/books/radical-enlightenment-a-world-of-open-sources-translation/page/english-version-please-edit
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/01/20/the-dialectic-of-freedom/
#ethics #FOSS #freedom #future #moral #OpenSource
We don’t know how #Israel’s #military is using #AI in #Gaza, but we should
In a year when AI has dominated the headlines around the globe, this element of the conflict has gone curiously under-examined. Given the myriad practical and ethical #questions that continue to surround the #technology, Israel should be pressed on how it’s deploying AI.
#ethics #war #politics #weapon #conflict #humanrights #discussion #society #news #terror #warfare
Let's test the best democracies in the #world to see whether they even meet the simplest basic principles of #democracy.
Today I start with the respectable democracy of the United Kingdom.
I only check a single criteria and that is equality before the law.
The British take a lot of pride in their Magna Carta, but they don't even have a constitution. The lack of a constitution is one of the biggest problems with the British legal system, as you can easily invoke in court a law passed in 1518 by some random bastard who had a bit of power at the time. The biggest problem, however, is that you cannot be an archaic monarchy and a modern democracy at the same time.
Based on history, the royal family is above the law. Scotland Yard is not allowed to investigate any crime on the King's estate without his consent. So if a crime is committed at the royal salmon farm, the police must first ask the king if they can enter the crime scene.
This made Trump hesitate to enter the royal palace, as bad things could have happened to him there.
No equality before the law, so no democracy. Great Britain has failed the democracy check.
What supposed democracy should I review next? Write it in the comments ...
#politics #rights #law #justice #equality #HumanRights #ethics #moral #test #check
#StephenFry on How to use #AI as a force for good
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfS8uk70Zc
How can the coming flood of technological progress, which will not stop at current developments such as big data-based and algorithmically generated statistical models with their astonishing capabilities and failures - i.e. current #AI systems - but lead to a further acceleration of innovation with increasing technological performance in computing? Today, we are thinking about an epistemic #crisis of world #knowledge in times of #deepfakes, #surveillance and bioweapons through AI, while brain-computer interfaces and quantum computers are already appearing on the horizon today. At the same time, #climate #change is probably the most outstanding of all crises, which has already been showing its first effects for several years and is setting new records with constantly rising #emissions. In short, how can we ensure that the coming real-life version of what is commonly referred to as "Singularity" turns out for the good of #humanity?
#singularity #future #technology #ethics #moral #humanrights #politics #economy #video #philosophy
#MrBeast builds 100 wells in #Africa, attracting praise – and some #criticism
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/06/africa/mrbeast-100-wells-africa-intl-scli/index.html
She praised Donaldson for shining the spotlight on the need for clean water supply but warned that “the issue is sustainability. It’s one thing to go in and install the well, it’s another thing for us to go back to three, four, or five years from now, and see if that well is still functional.”
When will Elon unlock free satellite internet for Africa?
#ethics #poverty #water #donation #entertainment #YouTube #news #world #humanRights
