"No employee of the federal government, that I’m aware of, is allowed to accept these kinds of gifts. If [Clarence] Thomas was in the House, if he was in the Senate, if he was in the White House, if he was anywhere else in government, this would not be allowed. If he was a lower court judge, this would not be allowed. And frankly, he should resign over this."
"I don't want to leap to any conclusions, but it has come to my attention that the conservative capture of the federal judiciary not only has effectively set us well down the road back to 1871, but also has been a most excellent vehicle for delivering graft to the people on the inside."
"Leonard Leo, the uncrowned king of dark money and architect of our carefully cultivated conservative majority on the Supreme Court. When it comes to the judiciary, and the universe of legalized influence peddling created by the conservative products of that universe, Leo is Professor Moriarty — the spider at the center of the web, attuned to every quiver of every strand. And, according to Politico, a man making a nice living at it."
It seems there's an acceleration of people working in #tech speaking out or resigning over lack of serious #ethics work while developing #AI (#Hinton). Now #chatGPT linked to #MRI successfully reads thoughts. While the study concludes: "subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder", we know the pace of #technology means this won't be an obstacle for long. Then what? Is saving 1 person with cerebral injury worth enslaving 1 million? #techethicshttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-scan-ai-chatgpt-thoughts-b2330628.html
"If AI systems become appreciably better at driving cars than humans are, would it be unethical for people to drive on their own, since this increases the risk of an accident and could cost tens of thousands of lives a year? What if AI was only somewhat better, but in the aggregate would still save thousands of lives a year?"
"“The ethical conduct of the #SupremeCourt has been under growing scrutiny,” Emmarie Huetteman wrote. “Questions have been raised over Justice #ClarenceThomas’ appearances before Republican-backed groups and his acceptance of favors from a contributor in Texas, #HarlanCrow...”
Feels awkward, but I'll make an #introduction post anyway, maybe I can find some folks to follow -
I'm a philosopher living in Jerusalem, and I also try to spend some of my time in activism, mainly but not exclusively anti-occupation/anti-apartheid activism.
My philosophy work is mainly in metaethics and philosophy of perception. I'm working on a co-written book on moral perception at the moment.
I also am trying to dabble a bit in making anarchism respectable in analytic political philosophy. I'm not an anarchist, but some of my best friends...etc.
Follow me for posts begging for help with philosophy, as well as Israel/Palestine stuff and some random leftist stuff. ok bye!
Really line drawing exercises are a tremendously under-utilized are of #ethics reasoning and #moderation decisions, especially by people who don't think that they do this professionally.
A minor rant because I'm tired and it is topical.
What are line drawing exercises?
Let's start with how this comes up, work our way into a topical example, and then circle back and look at it from an ethics reasoning standpoint in software.
First, let's create a hypothetical server. Call it Alice…
‘So Blatant’: Gorsuch Failed to Disclose He Sold Home to CEO of Major Law Firm
"This is exactly the type of situation that an ethics code that included vetting of transactions and full disclosure would clear up," the head of the watchdog Accountable.US asserted.
Nine days after Gorsuch’s April 2017 confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brian Duffy, the CEO of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, signed a contract to purchase the property.
“Several studies show that facial recognition systems regularly misidentify Black and brown people, posing a particular threat to communities that have already been disproportionately targeted by police and surveillance systems.”
Oh, that is beautiful! A tool to confuse AI models stealing your copyrighted images. It is called glaze. You run your pictures through it before uploading somewhere. That is a start until laws are enforced.
“Foragers know that the plants and fungi they pick are alive; they know their stories of birth, growth, reproduction, aging, and dying. They know who eats whom, who becomes food for whom, and their own place in this dance.”
5/ Congress already acted. Now it's the DOJ's responsibility. The obvious concealment evidences willfulness and is a federal crime that can be charged. Nobody is above the law, means justices too, in fact they of all people should be held to the highest standards. #DOJCrimDiv#corrupt#scotus#Clarence#Thomas#Ethics Mess
Clarence is unfit to serve in any government position or in any capacity in legal profession.