We must stop the rise of the Machines.
UN talks to target 'killer robots'
Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies.
That dark vision could all too easily shift from science fiction to fact with disastrous consequences for the human race, unless such weapons are banned before they leap from the drawing board to the arsenal, campaigners warn.
Starting Tuesday, governments are holding the first-ever talks focussed exclusively on so-called "lethal autonomous robots".
The four-day session of the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva could chart the path towards preventing the nightmare scenario evoked by opponents, ahead of a fresh session in November.
"Killer robots would threaten the most fundamental of rights and principles in international law," warned Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch.
"We don't see how these inanimate machines could understand or respect the value of life, yet they would have the power to determine when to take it away," he told reporters on the eve of the talks.
"The only answer is a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons," he added.
Goose's organisation came together with a host of others to form the Campaign To Stop Killer Robots in April 2013, prodding nations into action.
Robot weapons are already deployed around the globe.
The best-known are drones, unmanned aircraft whose human controllers push the trigger from a far-distant base. Controversy rages, especially over the civilian collateral damage caused when the United States strikes alleged Islamist militants.
http://news.yahoo.com/un-talks-target-killer-robots-041845913.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKnkjeVlA4
Quote"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" Mario Savio 1964 at Berkeley CA.
This subject is touched on in the new 2014 Robocop.
Not the perfect movie but the director was limited to what he could do (out of the 10 ideas he had 9 were rejected) :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JTS9BQUgJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JTS9BQUgJs
Well, if some accounts are to be believed, many of our politicians, movers and shakers are just prgrammed clones..
How about we remove those?
I'm still trying to validate Cerebral Cortext Holograms..
Help appreciated!
So many theories and things going on...that suggest anything from the Human race becoming totally mind controlled or chipped to becoming total cyborgs within the next 20 years..that its very hard to consider what may really be likely to happen and if it can be avoided...
I am sure we all believe that the technology is there or almost is now to do any of this...and is it just the matter or time...
or are we or have we just become paranoid and believe it will likely happen...
I was looking at some very disturbing stuff a few weeks ago that if true, it seems just beyond imagination ....Trying to weigh it up if it may be real or not if its just some made up total Sci Fi type hoax ! and wondering if I should post and star a thread on it or not !
Quote from: Gigas on May 13, 2014, 08:56:26 PM
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" Mario Savio 1964 at Berkeley CA.
Why not move past the machine?
Quote from: astr0144 on May 14, 2014, 12:41:39 AM
So many theories and things going on...that suggest anything from the Human race becoming totally mind controlled or chipped to becoming total cyborgs within the next 20 years..that its very hard to consider what may really be likely to happen and if it can be avoided...
I am sure we all believe that the technology is there or almost is now to do any of this...and is it just the matter or time...
or are we or have we just become paranoid and believe it will likely happen...
I was looking at some very disturbing stuff a few weeks ago that if true, it seems just beyond imagination ....Trying to weigh it up if it may be real or not if its just some made up total Sci Fi type hoax ! and wondering if I should post and star a thread on it or not !
Why hold back?
If you are all speculating a convergence then you could be down the right path.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hbkh4hXEk
Quote from: Amaterasu on May 14, 2014, 12:45:58 AM
Why not move past the machine?
Ahh my favoratist (made up word) quote evaarr :)
(Mario Savio)
In regards to what the future holds:
If we can imagine it then we can create it.
If we project it, we will live it.
If star treks taught me anything ... ;) aha
I think therefore I am..
Blehh.
Quote from: Ellirium113 on May 14, 2014, 12:48:35 AM
Why hold back?
Indeed,
Get it on the table.
I do not forsee this as something that is forced upon us,
rather it will be our own choice.
I am not paranoid....they can integrate and chip my
cold....dead.....body. ;D ;)
But...thats just me.
What if....
Biologists Create Cells With 6 DNA Letters, Instead of Just 4
QuoteRomesberg says his lab spent 15 years developing DNA with two extra letters. In chemical terms, the letters are nucleotides, the components of DNA whose sequences spell out instructions for making proteins. Cells, you may remember, make proteins by transcribing DNA into RNA and using the RNA as a template to string together amino acids into proteins. Cells also have to copy their DNA each time they divide to make more cells. The biggest challenge, Romesberg says, was making sure the two new nucleotides played nice with the enzymes that do all this copying and transcribing.
In 2012, the scientists reported a breakthrough: They showed that six-letter DNA they'd created could be successfully copied and transcribed into RNA in test tube experiments.
Maybe there is more to fear than the machine....
Biostatistics 666
Statistical Models in Human Geneticshttp://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/class/666.01.pdf