All That Man Is The Baffler. I was living in England at the time of the ’86 World Cup, and I can never forgive Maradona the hand of God goal. Never. Poor Peter Shilton. For the refs to allow that goal…
An Australian winery had its luxury product counterfeited by Chinese fraudsters who sold cheap wine in fancy-looking bottles, the company said.
Chinese cops busted the operation, which used bottles made to look like they were genuine Penfolds products, according to a Treasury Wine Estates spokeswoman.
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The Case Against $2,000 Checks Is Garbage Daily Poster. David Sirota.
Vitalik on free speech (always read Vitalik).
Overpopulation Translational Ecology
We wouldn’t be able to control superintelligent machines Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Linksys’ Motion-Sensing Wifi Now Uses All Your Wireless Devices For More Accurate Alerts Gizmodo
Someone Etched ‘Trump’ on a Florida Manatee NYT
Japan’s New Year tuna auction in pictures SCMP
Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past Guardian
The Fascinating Second Lives of Stuff American Conservative
Is It Really Too Late to Learn New Skills? New Yorker
Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air built its empire on old, cheap planes Al Jazeera. I’ve flown Sriwijaya. There’s no other option to fly to some Indonesian destinations,
“If we take the general status quo for granted, and apply ethical procedures only to narrowly defined questions within its limits, we abandon the most potent power ethical thinking can exhibit” — Troy Jollimore’s (CSU Chico) look at the work of an ethics consultant suggests there’s room for improvement in that business
Taking skepticism about microaggressions seriously — Regina Rini (York) talks with Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) on the ethics of microaggressions
“Be Here Now” — John Martin Fischer (UCR) brings philosophy to bear on this common spiritual injunction
The “Fake News Immunity Chatbot” employs Socrates, Aristotle, & Gorgias to teach you to spot fake news — developed by Eleni Musi (Liverpool). (Note: I was able to use the site on my iPhone, but not in any browser on my Windows laptop)
Developments in physics in 2020 — a select summary at Quanta Magazine
“It is the unconscious cognitive dissonance at the heart of explicit racism which prevents explicit racists from seeing the immoral nature of their racist actions” — Berit Brogaard (Miami) and Dimitria Gatzia (Akron) on racism and psychology
When it’s clear that the referee misunderstood your paper — there is still something that may be learned from the referee report, explains Lewis M. Powell (Buffalo)
Michael Hatfield (University of Washington), Professionally Responsible Artificial Intelligence, 51 Ariz. St. L.J. 1057 (2019):
As artificial intelligence (AI) developers produce more applications for professional use, how will we determine when the use is professionally responsible? One way to answer the question is to determine whether the AI augments the professional’s intelligence or whether it is used as a substitute for it. To augment the professional’s intelligence would be to make it greater, that is, to increase and improve the professional’s expertise. But a professional who substitutes artificial intelligence for his or her own puts both the professional role and the client at risk. The problem is developing guidance that encourages professionals to use AI when it can reliably improve expertise but discourages substitution that undermines expertise.
This Article proposes a solution, using tax professionals as a case study. There are several reasons tax professionals provide a good case study, including that tax practice has a long history of computerization and that AI is already being developed for tax professionals. Tax professionals, including not only lawyers but certified public accountants, are directly regulated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in addition to their regulation by professional bodies.
