Comments on: Technology Apocalypse-Thinking Man’s Guide to the End of the World http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/ What to read? What to read? So many books in the stack. Mon, 07 May 2012 18:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-20836 Steve Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:46:48 +0000 http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-20836 We have had an irobot Roomba 560 for just over a year and love it. Did you know that you can by animal covers for them ? ..they look funny moving around the room :-) We have had an irobot Roomba 560 for just over a year and love it. Did you know that you can by animal covers for them ? ..they look funny moving around the room :-)

]]> By: admin http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 admin Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:42:26 +0000 http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-1338 Yeah, "lock up" always reminds me a database deadlocks (yes, that was in the old days, kids) before we had row locking or record locking, and two programs that weren't written with the right pre-thought rules in mind (gee, I wonder if some other program might want to look at this record at the same time) would get into the silent deadly embrace that was a database deadlock. I imagine the same thing here with nano-tech or robots or AI trying to program in this protection scheme....silent deadly embrace covers it pretty well. Yeah, “lock up” always reminds me a database deadlocks (yes, that was in the old days, kids) before we had row locking or record locking, and two programs that weren’t written with the right pre-thought rules in mind (gee, I wonder if some other program might want to look at this record at the same time) would get into the silent deadly embrace that was a database deadlock.

I imagine the same thing here with nano-tech or robots or AI trying to program in this protection scheme….silent deadly embrace covers it pretty well.

]]> By: Kev http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Kev Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:46:32 +0000 http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/2008/01/01/technology-apocalypse-thinking-mans-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-1337 Good point about the difficulties of Asimov's three (four) laws of robotics. Your point, in the novels, is what makes the robots "lock up" when confronted with an event that defies the limitations of the three laws (one of the bugs of the programming). As for the size of the code - yeah, hopefully in the future it will be easier to take a program that massive (bloated) and fit it onto/into anything requiring it - from nanomachines to humaniform robots to starship AIs Good point about the difficulties of Asimov’s three (four) laws of robotics.
Your point, in the novels, is what makes the robots “lock up” when confronted with an event that defies the limitations of the three laws (one of the bugs of the programming).
As for the size of the code – yeah, hopefully in the future it will be easier to take a program that massive (bloated) and fit it onto/into anything requiring it – from nanomachines to humaniform robots to starship AIs

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