"We Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot"

 

2020-09-10:

I visited an energy industry exhibition in Osaka Bay. Before I took the train home, I rested at a seaside park. Although human beings march confidently and blindly towards engineering a world of their imagination, they are unable to block out the beauty, glory, and vitality of that which already exists.

Look up the song: "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell.

"What's it All About...?"

"When you walk let your heart lead the way
And you'll find love any day"
- the song Alfie by Hal David & Burt Bacharach, famous performance by Dionne Warwick.

Will the Widespread use of Robots bring Peace?

In the end, the robots will help bring peace...

I had this epiphany about two nights ago. It goes like this: in their greed for market share, major robotics companies are compelled to accept a global robot safety standard. For policy makers, they will be told and asked to contribute to the rules of robot behaviour, the details checked and implemented by geeks. It will have to be transparent, checked across countries, across continents. Robots cannot diverge from programming rules. Robots gain (monitored) responsibility as intelligence increases. Number of opportunistic evil acts and mistakes go to almost zero. Waging war against any nation, and thus against a global network of robots dedicated to ensuring safety becomes futile.

I haven't had time to think and find the weak point in the argument, but it seems somewhat compelling.