Trying to find a book - remember the story vaguely, read it maybe 20-30 years ago. People are living/working on assigned weekdays and sleep in others, a couple are interested to move to the same day and somebody arranges it to fail in some way.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-boeings-door-plug-debacle-says-about-the-future-of-aviation-safety/
For a flight to be imperiled by a simple and preventable manufacturing or maintenance error is an anomaly with ominous implications.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/could-our-universe-be-a-simulation-how-would-we-even-tell/
Simulations all the way down—the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/02/the-erosion-of-financial-privacy.html
Here is a bit on privacy from Eric Hughes’s Cypherpunk’s Manifesto of 1993. Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is […]
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/02/fbi-looking-to-use-amazons-facial-recognition-tech-to-recognize-stuff-that-isnt-peoples-faces/
A half-decade ago, Amazon was an emerging player on the facial recognition scene. Its proprietary blend was called “Rekognition.” At the outset, Amazon was definitely interested in gett…
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/human-brain-supercomputer-coming-in-2024
The world's first supercomputer capable of simulating networks at the scale of the human brain has been announced by researchers at Western Sydney University.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/computer-human-brain-cells-perform-voice-recognition
Researchers have created a "biocomputer" from lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that can perform voice recognition.
https://theconversation.com/your-mental-dictionary-is-part-of-what-makes-you-unique-heres-how-your-brain-stores-and-retrieves-words-212751
Most people can draw from tens of thousands of words in their memory within milliseconds. Studying this process can improve language disorder treatment and appreciation of the gift of communication.
https://open.substack.com/pub/erikdavis/p/techgnostic-times
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https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/the-brouhaha-over-consciousness-and-pseudoscience
You’ve been playing low-stakes poker with a bunch of buddies for years. You might peek at someone’s cards now and then, but only as a joke. Suddenly your buddy accuses you of cheating. Shocked, you exclaim, What the hell! It’s just a game! Chill out! Something like that just happened in the field
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