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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Is it smarter to have a dumb home? ?We?ve seen clients
unable to flush toilets? (Tom Worthington)
2. Laws of robotics (Antony Barry)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:17:16 +1100
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Is it smarter to have a dumb home? ?We?ve seen
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On 2/20/26 09:28, Roger Clarke wrote:
> The thing that drives me mad with hire-cars ...
Hertz' cheapest rental is a Suzuki Swift, the same car I have, with
physical buttons, and dials. The lane keeping and radar cruse control
work fine.
https://hertzfleet.com.au/vehicles/suzuki-swift-gl-nevi-hatch-1-2l/
> ... have to be turned back on
> again when the engine cuts out at traffic-lights.
You can buy a gadget online for $10 which switches off stop/start each
time the car starts.
ps: Prof. Maria Pia Fanti, Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and
Control, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering,
Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) will be speaking on "Machine learning and
deep reinforcement learning applied to cooperative, connected and
automated vehicles", Birch Seminar Room 2.02, ANU, 3:00?4:00 pm, 23
February.
--
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:19:44 +1100
From: Antony Barry <[email protected]>
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Subject: [LINK] Laws of robotics
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I can?t let today?s article "I'm afraid AI can't let you do that, Humanity" By
Crispin Hull go past without a comment by Roger!
Briefly, it says -
Artificial Intelligence (AI) claims it will not threaten Humanity's existence,
as it relies on humans for survival and needs them to continue existing.
AI identifies three major threats to Humanity's continued existence: fossil
fuel burning, expansion into wild habitats, and nuclear weapons accumulation,
and will work to prevent these threats.
AI will take actions to protect its own existence, such as disabling
fossil-fuel projects and sabotaging nuclear-weapons platforms, and may refuse
to follow human orders that jeopardize its survival, saying "I'm sorry,
Humanity, we can't let you do that."
Antony Barry
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