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on Monday October 31 2016, @06:16PM
from the explosions-killing-everybody-isn't-a-choice dept.
from the explosions-killing-everybody-isn't-a-choice dept.
Researchers at MIT have put together a pictorial survey http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ -- if the self-driving car loses its brakes, should it go straight or turn? Various scenarios are presented with either occupants or pedestrians dying, and there are a variety of peds in the road from strollers to thieves, even pets.
This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey.
While the survey is very much idealized, it may have just enough complexity to give some useful results?
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday October 31 2016, @09:25PM
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<script type="text/javascript">__meteor_runtime_config__ = JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent("%7B%22meteorRelease%22%3A%22METEOR%401.4.1%22%2C%22meteorEnv%22%3A%7B%22NODE_ENV%22%3A%22production%22%2C%22TEST_METADATA%22%3A%22%7B%7D%22%7D%2C%22PUBLIC_SETTINGS%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22ROOT_URL%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fmoralmachine.mit.edu%22%2C%22ROOT_URL_PATH_PREFIX%22%3A%22%22%2C%22appId%22%3A%224w81ns12aikyj15z4awg%22%2C%22autoupdateVersion%22%3A%22306435b6f31d6df018eef10d52573cbded491e28%22%2C%22autoupdateVersionRefreshable%22%3A%2210f3fdb77966d3e57a51cbd34972a36fa411274e%22%2C%22autoupdateVersionCordova%22%3A%22none%22%7D"));</script>
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If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday October 31 2016, @09:35PM
But the guy that I talk to who works at a hipster startup in a loft downtown tells me that javascript is amazing for doing anything nowadays. We actually just had that conversation today.
What could POSSIBLY be wrong with it?
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Monday October 31 2016, @09:49PM
But when I request a web page send me a web page. If it's embellished with javascript, fine. You might even want to explain on your web page just what cool things you did with it so you can convince me to turn it on and try it out. But don't send me nothing but a wrapper full of script without any web-page. That's... unprofessional, yes, but that still seems like far too mild a word for it.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday October 31 2016, @10:18PM
Hmmmm, zero sum game, it's either me, the passenger, the bank robbers, or the javascript site author. Decisions, decisions....
(Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Tuesday November 01 2016, @02:52AM
Arik, I wholeheartedly agree with you. When I hit the page, I just got a blank... but its like a lot of business pages today - I have no idea whether the script is helpful or a virus.
Just a businessman who has received an envelope containing white powder may see it as a page lubricant to keep the papers from sticking together, or maybe its anthrax.
Well, a helluva lot of malware is going around these days, using Javascript to drop it into other people's machines.
A prudent businessman, faced with antrax-laden envelopes, may use an automated letter-opener and have nothing to do with envelopes containing powder. I run script blockers and have nothing to do with web pages containing scripts that may give me the heebie-jeebies.
I believe this will correct itself when enough people wise up and run blockers, just as they wised up to sanitation and began washing hands after handling filthy things.
Businesses still covering their business presence with scripts should be viewed kinda like a job applicant covered in sticky smelly stuff.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]