Stephen Hawking reminds us technology will kill us all and it's all our fault
http://mashable.com/2017/03/07/stephen-h...ll-us-all/
EXCERPT: We are well into 2017 and the situation hasn't got any better, so here comes the routine alert from world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking that we're all gonna die — and it's all our fault. During an interview with The Times, Hawking repeated the concept that humanity faces existential threats from climate change, artificial intelligence and mass species extinction....
Technological advances 'may destroy us all'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/natio.../98841862/
EXCERPT: Physicist Stephen Hawking is again raising the alarm that humankind needs to shape up if it hopes to survive....
The Most Important Idea about the Universe
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/gue...-universe/
EXCERPT: [...] This unique success [of disciplines coming together] means, I feel sure, that the sciences are set to invade other areas of life not traditionally associated with science: law, the arts, politics, morality, social life. Sam Harris, the American philosopher and neuroscientist, has described morality as “an undeveloped aspect of science” and believes we shall eventually be able to define “human values” satisfactorily. Patricia Churchland, the Canadian-American neuroscientist, argues that our understanding of “human nature” can be refined by neuroscience, to the benefit of all.
The latest developments are aided by the recent accumulation of big data sets and our snowballing abilities in computation. For example, mathematicians, physicists and psychologists have all examined aspects of capitalism. If there is an overriding focus it is what Science magazine, in a special issue, called “The Science of Inequality.” This stems from the realisation that under capitalism, except for a few decades following the two world wars in the twentieth century, when many industrial states were on their knees financially, the basic economic order has been a growing wealth disparity within populations.
This finding—which applies to many countries—appears solid and has emerged from a wave of big data, tax returns for the past two centuries. This richness means that, as Science put it, the “stuff of science” can be applied to it—analysis, extracting causal inferences, formulating hypotheses.
In other words, the methods of science, which have proved so successful—observation, quantification, experimental testing—are being increasingly applied in new areas....
http://mashable.com/2017/03/07/stephen-h...ll-us-all/
EXCERPT: We are well into 2017 and the situation hasn't got any better, so here comes the routine alert from world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking that we're all gonna die — and it's all our fault. During an interview with The Times, Hawking repeated the concept that humanity faces existential threats from climate change, artificial intelligence and mass species extinction....
Technological advances 'may destroy us all'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/natio.../98841862/
EXCERPT: Physicist Stephen Hawking is again raising the alarm that humankind needs to shape up if it hopes to survive....
The Most Important Idea about the Universe
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/gue...-universe/
EXCERPT: [...] This unique success [of disciplines coming together] means, I feel sure, that the sciences are set to invade other areas of life not traditionally associated with science: law, the arts, politics, morality, social life. Sam Harris, the American philosopher and neuroscientist, has described morality as “an undeveloped aspect of science” and believes we shall eventually be able to define “human values” satisfactorily. Patricia Churchland, the Canadian-American neuroscientist, argues that our understanding of “human nature” can be refined by neuroscience, to the benefit of all.
The latest developments are aided by the recent accumulation of big data sets and our snowballing abilities in computation. For example, mathematicians, physicists and psychologists have all examined aspects of capitalism. If there is an overriding focus it is what Science magazine, in a special issue, called “The Science of Inequality.” This stems from the realisation that under capitalism, except for a few decades following the two world wars in the twentieth century, when many industrial states were on their knees financially, the basic economic order has been a growing wealth disparity within populations.
This finding—which applies to many countries—appears solid and has emerged from a wave of big data, tax returns for the past two centuries. This richness means that, as Science put it, the “stuff of science” can be applied to it—analysis, extracting causal inferences, formulating hypotheses.
In other words, the methods of science, which have proved so successful—observation, quantification, experimental testing—are being increasingly applied in new areas....