I've been writing about the work of Cathy "Mathbabe" O'Neil for years: she's a radical data-scientist with a Harvard PhD in mathematics, who coined the term "Weapons of Math Destruction" to describe the ways that sloppy statistical modeling is punishing millions of people every day, and in more and more cases, destroying lives. Today, O'Neil brings her argument to print, with a fantastic, plainspoken, call to arms called (what else?) Weapons of Math Destruction.
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Proseguo con la pubblicazione e traduzione di testi riguardo al transumanesimo anarchico. Ritengo che sia un posizione politica molto interessante e degna di attenzione, ma anche poco conosciuta fra i lettori di lingua italiana.
La pagina originale di queste FAQ è su blushifted.net.
read moreL'incoerenza e la precarietà del Transumanismo Non-Anarchico
Articolo originale su Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies. Tradotto e rilasciato in pubblico dominio col permesso dell'autore.
Più aumentano i mezzi con cui le persone possono agire, più semplice diventa l'attacco e più difficile la difesa.
È una semplice questione di complessità. L'attaccante deve solo scegliere una linea di attacco …
read morePolitical Transhumanism is a Deep, Dark Rabbit Hole
Transhumanism has been going through a rough patch lately; or rather, certain interpretations of it. In 2015, Zoltan Istvan announced that he would be running for President of the United States under the American Transhumanist Party – of which he founded a year prior. Yes, he knew that running was one long exercise in futility; that's why he ensured his tour bus looked like a coffin before setting out with his campaign. No, this was not a joke; the 2016 United States Presidential Election has been markedly different in that interest in third party candidates is at an all time high. Zoltan gaining anything resembling a following isn't mere coincidence. Yet there seems to be an unspoken ideological rift between what Zoltan Istvan thinks Transhumanism is, and what Transhumanism is in the eyes of its global constituency.
read moreGödel e gli antivirus
Tradotto da http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/can-viruses-be-detected, di Jennifer Lapell.
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