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Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video)
Discussions about ethics and technology are perennial Slashdot staples. But if you want to frequent a site that is about ethics and technology and almost nothing else, with a strong science fiction bent to it, you might want to check out the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET.org) website. Here to introduce us to IEET and tell us what it's about, we have IEET Managing Director Hank Pellissier in a remote video interview we made through Skype.
as experience seems to suggest... the goal is the opposite of what is projected..
Not trying to be a troll, it just so much anymore the end result of claims is the opposite.
Given the fuzzy nature of philosophy and ethics, the goal of this institute is most likely to employ philosophers and ethicists.
Actually solving any problems will be left as an exercise to the readers.
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
Seems like an exercise in mental masturbation to me. Does it get frustrating teaching a subject that can hold no meaningful answers? For some subset of the population, technology abuse X is unethical. For another subset, technology use X is innovative and empowering, even life-changing. For the rest of the population, it's not given much thought at all.
who want to decide what others should do with their technology rather than those who would actually use technology to change the world.
I pushed pause at "transhumanism" - what a load of CROCKSHIT. why is it that 99.999% of those signing under it are people who can't do anything - but still live in delusional dream that _others_ will invent technology for them to be gods with superhuman abilities. "i'm gonna be immortal lollololo" - well, I got news for you, not gonna happen.
slashdot maybe 15 years old but why the fuck post this shit? is this a joke? is this ethics of fantasy writing? WHAT THE FUCK! LEFTIST PROGRESSIVE!?? anarcho-libertararian-capitalist-feminists whhhhhaatt the fuck? who the fuck thinks it's worthwhile to argue about if it would be cool to live 500 years vs. 1000 years? building a dyson sphere? YEAH! let's discuss that! let's NOT discuss anything technological that could have an effect on people today. like, fuck discussing technology of getting clean water and education(information) to people when you can smell your own farts and dream of being an immortal starchild bitch building a sphere to cover the sun.
you know what this institute is all about? discussing non-existing shit. that's it. you could just as well start a fucking jedi-university or hogwashwarts local chapter.
(I'd start Angry slashdot reader vidblog if I wasn't so lazy and rather spend my time doing something worthwhile)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Actually solving any problems will be left as an exercise to the readers.
Having suffered through all 12 minutes and 45 seconds of this rambling and pointless Skype video call, I suspect that actually solving any problems is like expecting a result from soft-willy masturbation by a eunuch.
Dear new owners of slashdot, please relegate stuff like this to somewhere else. It's not even close to being "news for nerds".
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
How about growing organs from stem cells... to serve with some fava beans and a nice chianti?
Rights of Non-Human Persons - The IEET is committed to the idea that some non-human animals meet the criteria of legal personhood and thus are deserving of specific rights and protections.
This stuff? Seriously? Can't people just be kind to kittens and puppies? More humane farming? Sure. Why not. But legal personhood? Someone watching to much My Little Pony? Learn the difference between sentience and sapience. The mere perception of individual experience does not grant the ability to reason or judge- two things which are vital for participation in a civilized legal framework.
Yeah, I just pretty much relegated most of the human race to a sub-sapient classification, but, well, what can ya do? ;-)
Under our Securing the Future research program we are assembling interdisciplinary teams of natural scientists, social scientists, humanists, historians, engineers, and futurists to work in goal-oriented projects aimed at proactively mitigating existential risks to humanity and to the biosphere.
Ooo! Ooo! Buzzword bingo!
Research Grants - The IEET is soliciting funds for a grants programs to support the research of IEET Fellows and interns on the ethical and policy issues of human enhancement and other emerging technologies.
Ah! There we go.