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Tuesday May 27, 2008

Dan Geer on Security, Monoculture, Metrics, Evolution, Etc.

“At the end of the day, however, we are facing a much bigger, more metaphysical question… how much security do we want?”

This is a seriously heavy talk that I hope some of you give the 45 minutes it takes to get through. It’s dense and challenging and frightening, but there is probably no better time to start considering a post-singularity view of security than right now. If we do not establish the proper models of dignity, privacy and security now when humans are still the greatest computational threat to monitor we will, all too soon, fall prey to our own foolish misjudgements when computers exceed us.

Click here for the text version of this wonderful talk

Consciousness, Politics, Technology — Tags: , , , , , — Viking Brian @ 3:35 pm


2 Comments »

  1. Haven’t watched the piece yet, but the need to “establish the proper models of dignity” resonates well with this piece in Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2008/05/27/meat-wagons.aspx

    I’ve said it before, but in my more paranoid moments I imagine a world where the Ahrimanic current succeeds in having us formally institute laws treating us as nothing more than meat, to be used as meat when we lose our value… Charelton Heston, where are you now that we need you most?

    Comment by nathan — Wednesday May 28, 2008 @ 11:17 am

  2. I like this a lot:

    “Human Nature’s first law: In technology, bad things don’t happen because they’re bad. They happen because they’re good.”

    Comment by Viking Brian — Wednesday May 28, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

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