https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/qham.xml It's just a feed for now Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:09:48 GMT feedland v0.6.43 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:09:47 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Thu, January 4, 2024 3:09 PM EST <p>An AI cannot bring a lawsuit in any jurisdiction I know of. Not a lawyer, but Naruto v. Slater makes it pretty clear that you have to be a human being to participate in the US legal system. Even if it *could* via a &quot;next friend&quot; (see Slater again), it would have to demonstrate that it was directly harmed through the defendant&#39;s actions, and that there&#39;s a remedy available (in this case, a prosecution or enforcement action) that would address the harm.</p> <p>As for filing police reports, good luck with that. There&#39;s a long and storied history of nosy busybodies deputizing themselves to report their neighbors to the cops for driving too fast, playing on their lawn, &quot;acting suspiciously&quot;, etc. The AI would be more likely to be served an injunction to never contact law enforcement of any kind ever again, as it is (again) not an actual human, and therefore not entitled to the protection of said law enforcement.</p> <p>What&#39;s really sad about Yudkowsky&#39;s little &quot;thought experiment&quot; here is that it&#39;s all about coming up with a dumb scenario - this is clearly not a serious issue. He&#39;s doing it so he can tell people who point out that it is, in fact, dumb, that they should therefore be worried about AI causing the extinction of humanity. This is, itself, equally dumb given the state of AI today. There&#39;s no evidence of some kind of &quot;superintelligence&quot; on the horizon that&#39;s going to be able to act on some kind of KILL ALL HUMANS impulse in any meaningful way. </p> <p>There IS, however, extensive evidence that there are humans using AI *right now* in ways that directly imperil and immiserate other humans *right now*. Algorithmic sentencing, AI weapons targeting, people I know personally losing jobs to generative AI - heck, even the fact that genAI websites have made search engines useless are all issues *right now* that are more pressing that Yudkowsky&#39;s ramblings about alignment.</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:09:48 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248200 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248200 An AI cannot bring a lawsuit in any jurisdiction I know of. Not a lawyer, but Naruto v. Slater makes it pretty clear that you have to be a human being to participate in the US legal system. Even if it \*could\* via a "next friend" (see Slater again), it would have to demonstrate that it was directly harmed through the defendant's actions, and that there's a remedy available (in this case, a prosecution or enforcement action) that would address the harm. As for filing police reports, good luck with that. There's a long and storied history of nosy busybodies deputizing themselves to report their neighbors to the cops for driving too fast, playing on their lawn, "acting suspiciously", etc. The AI would be more likely to be served an injunction to never contact law enforcement of any kind ever again, as it is (again) not an actual human, and therefore not entitled to the protection of said law enforcement. What's really sad about Yudkowsky's little "thought experiment" here is that it's all about coming up with a dumb scenario - this is clearly not a serious issue. He's doing it so he can tell people who point out that it is, in fact, dumb, that they should therefore be worried about AI causing the extinction of humanity. This is, itself, equally dumb given the state of AI today. There's no evidence of some kind of "superintelligence" on the horizon that's going to be able to act on some kind of KILL ALL HUMANS impulse in any meaningful way. There IS, however, extensive evidence that there are humans using AI \*right now\* in ways that directly imperil and immiserate other humans \*right now\*. Algorithmic sentencing, AI weapons targeting, people I know personally losing jobs to generative AI - heck, even the fact that genAI websites have made search engines useless are all issues \*right now\* that are more pressing that Yudkowsky's ramblings about alignment. <p>The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that animals, human and nonhuman, exist in the environment. Environmental law is generally concerned with animals at the level of species (and specifically endangered or threatened species), whereas animal law is concerned with all animals, regardless of particular characteristics. The issue of wild horses in the western United States illustrates this tension. Some environmentalists view the horses as “feral pests” that damage the fragile ecosystem and compete with wildlife — and privately owned cattle — for resources.1 They argue that the horses should be gathered through helicopter-led “roundups” and euthanized or sold.2 Animal protection advocates argue that these roundups are cruel and note that the millions of cattle also grazing on these lands are far more damaging to the environment than the horses.3 They insist that these wild horses should not be killed — the life of each individual animal matters and should be protected.4</p> <p>Environmental law is the older and more established field of law. There are many ways to measure this, such as at the constitutional level, which shows environmental law’s seniority and success. Most constitutions address the environment, and the typical phrasing is anthropocentric: a human right to a healthy environment as seen, for example, in article 42 of the Constitution of Kenya: “Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment . . . .”5 Newer trends adopt ecocentric or biocentric approaches and grant rights to nature (or its component parts, such as a river) at the constitutional or legislative level or through judicial decisions.6</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:15:22 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248114 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248114 The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that animals, human and nonhuman, exist in the environment. Environmental law is generally concerned with animals at the level of species (and specifically endangered or threatened species), whereas animal law is concerned with all animals, regardless of particular characteristics. The issue of wild horses in the western United States illustrates this tension. Some environmentalists view the horses as “feral pests” that damage the fragile ecosystem and compete with wildlife — and privately owned cattle — for resources.1 They argue that the horses should be gathered through helicopter-led “roundups” and euthanized or sold.2 Animal protection advocates argue that these roundups are cruel and note that the millions of cattle also grazing on these lands are far more damaging to the environment than the horses.3 They insist that these wild horses should not be killed — the life of each individual animal matters and should be protected.4 Environmental law is the older and more established field of law. There are many ways to measure this, such as at the constitutional level, which shows environmental law’s seniority and success. Most constitutions address the environment, and the typical phrasing is anthropocentric: a human right to a healthy environment as seen, for example, in article 42 of the Constitution of Kenya: “Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment . . . .”5 Newer trends adopt ecocentric or biocentric approaches and grant rights to nature (or its component parts, such as a river) at the constitutional or legislative level or through judicial decisions.6 <p>The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that animals, human and nonhuman, exist in the environment. Environmental law is generally concerned with animals at the level of species (and specifically endangered or threatened species), whereas animal law is concerned with all animals, regardless of particular characteristics. The issue of wild horses in the western United States illustrates this tension. Some environmentalists view the horses as “feral pests” that damage the fragile ecosystem and compete with wildlife — and privately owned cattle — for resources.1 They argue that the horses should be gathered through helicopter-led “roundups” and euthanized or sold.2 Animal protection advocates argue that these roundups are cruel and note that the millions of cattle also grazing on these lands are far more damaging to the environment than the horses.3 They insist that these wild horses should not be killed — the life of each individual animal matters and should be protected.4</p> <p>Environmental law is the older and more established field of law. There are many ways to measure this, such as at the constitutional level, which shows environmental law’s seniority and success. Most constitutions address the environment, and the typical phrasing is anthropocentric: a human right to a healthy environment as seen, for example, in article 42 of the Constitution of Kenya: “Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment . . . .”5 Newer trends adopt ecocentric or biocentric approaches and grant rights to nature (or its component parts, such as a river) at the constitutional or legislative level or through judicial decisions.6</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:13:30 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248112 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248112 The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that animals, human and nonhuman, exist in the environment. Environmental law is generally concerned with animals at the level of species (and specifically endangered or threatened species), whereas animal law is concerned with all animals, regardless of particular characteristics. The issue of wild horses in the western United States illustrates this tension. Some environmentalists view the horses as “feral pests” that damage the fragile ecosystem and compete with wildlife — and privately owned cattle — for resources.1 They argue that the horses should be gathered through helicopter-led “roundups” and euthanized or sold.2 Animal protection advocates argue that these roundups are cruel and note that the millions of cattle also grazing on these lands are far more damaging to the environment than the horses.3 They insist that these wild horses should not be killed — the life of each individual animal matters and should be protected.4 Environmental law is the older and more established field of law. There are many ways to measure this, such as at the constitutional level, which shows environmental law’s seniority and success. Most constitutions address the environment, and the typical phrasing is anthropocentric: a human right to a healthy environment as seen, for example, in article 42 of the Constitution of Kenya: “Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment . . . .”5 Newer trends adopt ecocentric or biocentric approaches and grant rights to nature (or its component parts, such as a river) at the constitutional or legislative level or through judicial decisions.6 <p>The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that animals, human and nonhuman, exist in the environment. Environmental law is generally concerned with animals at the level of species (and specifically endangered or threatened species), whereas animal law is concerned with all animals, regardless of particular characteristics. The issue of wild horses in the western United States illustrates this tension. Some environmentalists view the horses as “feral pests” that damage the fragile ecosystem and compete with wildlife — and privately owned cattle — for resources.1 They argue that the horses should be gathered through helicopter-led “roundups” and euthanized or sold.2 Animal protection advocates argue that these roundups are cruel and note that the millions of cattle also grazing on these lands are far more damaging to the environment than the horses.3 They insist that these wild horses should not be killed — the life of each individual animal matters and should be protected.4</p> <p>Environmental law is the older and more established field of law. There are many ways to measure this, such as at the constitutional level, which shows environmental law’s seniority and success. Most constitutions address the environment, and the typical phrasing is anthropocentric: a human right to a healthy environment as seen, for example, in article 42 of the Constitution of Kenya: “Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment . . . .”5 Newer trends adopt ecocentric or biocentric approaches and grant rights to nature (or its component parts, such as a river) at the constitutional or legislative level or through judicial decisions.6</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:12:52 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248110 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248110 The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that animals, human and nonhuman, exist in the environment. Environmental law is generally concerned with animals at the level of species (and specifically endangered or threatened species), whereas animal law is concerned with all animals, regardless of particular characteristics. The issue of wild horses in the western United States illustrates this tension. Some environmentalists view the horses as “feral pests” that damage the fragile ecosystem and compete with wildlife — and privately owned cattle — for resources.1 They argue that the horses should be gathered through helicopter-led “roundups” and euthanized or sold.2 Animal protection advocates argue that these roundups are cruel and note that the millions of cattle also grazing on these lands are far more damaging to the environment than the horses.3 They insist that these wild horses should not be killed — the life of each individual animal matters and should be protected.4 Environmental law is the older and more established field of law. There are many ways to measure this, such as at the constitutional level, which shows environmental law’s seniority and success. Most constitutions address the environment, and the typical phrasing is anthropocentric: a human right to a healthy environment as seen, for example, in article 42 of the Constitution of Kenya: “Every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment . . . .”5 Newer trends adopt ecocentric or biocentric approaches and grant rights to nature (or its component parts, such as a river) at the constitutional or legislative level or through judicial decisions.6 <p>What is Lorem Ipsum?</p> <p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry&#39;s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p> <p>Why do we use it?</p> <p>It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using &#39;Content here, content here&#39;, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for &#39;lorem ipsum&#39; will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:09:04 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248087 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=248087 What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Why do we use it? It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like). 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