Corporate Crimes and the 3 Laws of Robotics

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Parent Category: ON BEING HUMAN WITHOUT A HIVE MENTALITY

Category: ECONOMICS

Last Updated: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 11:14

1. A robot may not, by action or inaction, cause harm to a human.
2. A robot shall obey orders from a human, except where in conflict with Rule 1.
3. A robot shall protect itself from harm, provided it does not conflict with Rule 1 or 2.

What is a robot? The term is from a Czech slang term for a slave worker. Isaac Asimov originally used it to describe a machine with human-like qualities. The modern term denotes any machine with a degree of autonomy, with no specification as to that degree. Even a subroutine on your phone, keeping a look-out for supermarket specials, is acceptably called a bargain-hunting ‘bot, or similar. For our purposes here, and everywhere else, may we propose the following definition of a robot:

Any system that collects inputs, and delivers pre-determined outputs, according to a predetermined set of instructions, acting with a degree of autonomy, qualifies under the description of ‘robot’.

This includes your bank!

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Political Scientists, Economists, Witchdoctors, Charlatans of All Sorts

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Parent Category: ON BEING HUMAN WITHOUT A HIVE MENTALITY

Category: ECONOMICS

Last Updated: Sunday, 05 May 2019 22:46

The Holy Profits of Mammon, with 20-20 vision in hindsight.

Political science serves the same purpose as economics; finding elaborate reasons to prove that last week’s accident was actually an inevitable consequence of well-understood processes which must be fixed by legislation and regulation. The rest of their time is spent building reasons and theories and excuses for next week’s accident. They also plan the entire PR side of all such accidents, well beforehand, which is why their stories are always so repetitive; they think we never learn from their mistakes.

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Carbon Taxes Explained (NOT) by a Professor Carbon Himself

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Parent Category: ON BEING HUMAN WITHOUT A HIVE MENTALITY

Category: ECONOMICS

Last Updated: Sunday, 05 May 2019 22:48

The Paranoid Goy presents to you the ‘reasoning’ behind carbon taxes, as explained by some …entity important enough to be quoted as The Authority on Wikipedia. It may amuse the reader to research the solutions originally proposed back in the ‘seventies, when the problem of industrial pollution started to attract formal scientific attention. We talked about filters, and chimney scrubbers, which “scrubbed” the smoke of poisons before it left the chimney. We designed elaborate but permanent solutions to contain the pollution we release into the environment. Designers were building garden ponds for factories, where biological processes were supposed to precondition waste water before release, engineers were competing to make the biggest, cheapest, most compact filters humanly possible. This would put the cost on the polluter directly, and this is where it died.

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How Privatisation is Clearing the Earth of Scum

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Parent Category: ON BEING HUMAN WITHOUT A HIVE MENTALITY

Category: ECONOMICS

Last Updated: Tuesday, 11 December 2018 10:53

It was in the seventies when we were liberated from the shackles of gross political ignorance and economic idiocy. It must have been the sudden availability of those new-fangled computer things, or maybe it was the bright new ideas thought up by bright new Wall Street Wiz Kids, but one thing was certain; the Man in the Street has to take a hand in dismantling the oppressive socialist regime that is Big Government. By 1980 we all understood the problem(s):

 Your government is too stupid to make a profit.

Government has no business in Business.

Politicians are corrupt and cannot be trusted with our money.

The theory is that, instead of the state using taxes to provide public services, the same services could be delivered more efficiently and at a profit by educated businessmen. Thus, instead of the wasteful public servant running the service at base level efficiency, a private contractor will supply a better service more economically.

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