Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Morlock Elloi
This is the key. Designers do not understand impact of the complexity that emerges from combining relatively simple components. This is especially amplified in real-time processing of multiple inputs. In a completely different field (packet switching from millions of end points) we had to

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Prem Chandavarkar
> On 15-Mar-2019, at 2:28 AM, Brian Holmes wrote: > > There is much to critique in the operations of Boeing and of the FAA. But > it's not about AI taking full control. https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13464-structural-design-and-thinking-in-approximations

Chelsea Manning re-imprisoned for refusing to testify against Assange

2019-03-14 Thread WikiLeaks / Sunshine Press
On Friday Chelsea Manning was re-imprisoned for refusing to testify against Julian Assange in a secret court hearing in order to coerce her into giving secret testimony. She will remain in jail until she testifies against Assange or until the grand jury against WikiLeaks is closed See:

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Brian Holmes
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:43 AM Morlock Elloi wrote: It looks like some cretin in Boeing that drank too much of AI Kool Aid > (probably a middle manager) decided to install trained logic circuit > that was supposed to make new aircraft behave (to pilots) like the older > one. As its operation

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Olia Lialina
i was rereading today this 5 y. o. article about a decade old accident https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash/amp following are parts of IV. Flying Robots and the article's final statement It takes an airplane to bring out the worst in a pilot. [... ]

rage against the machine

2019-03-14 Thread Morlock Elloi
Handling of the recent B737 Max 8 disaster is somewhat revealing. What seems to have happened (for the 2nd time) is that computing machine fought the pilot, and the machine won. It looks like some cretin in Boeing that drank too much of AI Kool Aid (probably a middle manager) decided to

Re: Tactics #7: CRITICAL ENGINEERING, Ljubljana, 26-27 March 2019

2019-03-14 Thread Rachel O' Dwyer
Thanks for sharing this. R On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:50 AM Marcela Okretič wrote: > Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is glad to announce: > > > > *Tactics #7* > > *CRITICAL ENGINEERING* > > *Radical Tools for Interventions in Infrastructure* > >

Tactics #7: CRITICAL ENGINEERING, Ljubljana, 26-27 March 2019

2019-03-14 Thread Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is glad to announce: Tactics #7 CRITICAL ENGINEERING Radical Tools for Interventions in Infrastructure https://aksioma.org/critical.engineering/index.html TALKS | WORKSHOP | EXHIBITION Ljubljana, 26-27 March 2019 THE TALKS: