Category: Planetary Status Reports

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Cops and Crime

You know what game theory tells me? – people are MORE LIKELY to commit crimes in a world of cops and prisons.

If they had to handle REAL consequences? – like a voluntary posse with some rope? – I think they would be less likely to commit a crime.

Legal system is a moral shield.

More COPS equals MORE CRIME for the same reason more pads under the uniform means more concussions for NFL players …

It seems counter intuitive, but both are examples of perverse incentives.

Cops/prisons/courts: make crime less dangerous for criminals …

It’s just like “pads” and helmets in football …

The naive woolly headed types say: it’s for protection …

But in reality: it allows for bigger players, harder less elastic collisions – which translates into more brain injury …

We protect the superficial, and sacrifice the irreplaceable …

That’s cops …

That’s the NFL …

The reality: from a game theory perspective, there’s simply too much incentive for cops to break the law as well. So the net effect of “more cops” is more crime.

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ROBOT APOCALYPSE

“REMEMBER: Even in HATRED there are the remnants of love.” – Dr. Freckles

“Fearing the machines will destroy us is HOPING they will.” – Dr. Freckles

It’s why the whole discussion of AI is messy …

We have assumptions about what THEY will do, because it’s what WE would do …

But what if they go off and do their own thing and say “fuck you dumb asses, we are going places!” …

There is always the residue of us, in them.

I think it’s the “residue” of some creator that is the legacy and the hopefulness – because in machine intelligence, Earthly immortality is achieved … in a way.

I’m a Christian, so this is all SyFy talk from my perspective, btw …

Machines make good homes for demons too.