"AI will enable a switch from what is essentially circuit switching today, in all kinds of organizations, to something that will look and feel a lot more like packet switching."
His 1996 work made me appreciate how time is expressed graphically. The smooth motion ones made me disfavor stop second analog clocks so much so that I’ve replaced all the movements in the clocks in our home with sweep second hands.
I was a mentor for an all girls high school FIRST team and I have to say, the way they were treated at competition by other teams and the way the organization handled that sexual objectification of them at competition leads me to a “that checks out” conclusion of Kamen and Epstein.
How did you rule out the much simpler explanation that the culture propagates from the hormones of high school boys, and going against that is a hard problem? You're going to have to be explicit about the details of "the way the organization handled that", as the obvious assumption is that they'd be stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to post-facto punish at the organizational level (as opposed to proactive policies for team mentors to follow going forward).
I am currently a mentor and previously a judge and volunteer for many years at regional events. In all my years I have never seen anything remotely like sexual objectification. I obviously can't know your experience but I would be very very surprised to find this occurring... especially at competitions.
I believe this implication goes against core values of the org and certainly it's local volunteers. I have no skin here except to defend a program that is doing amazing work. My kids are participants and I have contributed to the org for more than 10y.
As I recall, Susan Calvin didn't have much patience for sycophantic AI.
‘You can’t tell them,’ said the psychologist slowly, ‘because that would hurt them,
and you mustn’t hurt them. But if you don’t tell them, you hurt them, so you must
tell them. And if you do, you will hurt them, and you mustn’t, so you can’t tell them;
but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you
must; but if you do, you-’
Herbie was up against the wall, and here he dropped to his knees. ‘Stop!’ he
shouted. ‘Close your mind! It is full of pain and frustration and hate! I didn’t mean
to, I tell you! I tried to help! I told you what you wanted to hear. I had to!’
The psychologist paid no attention. ‘You must tell them, but if you do, you hurt
them, so you mustn’t; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must-‘
And Herbie screamed! Higher and higher, with the terror of a lost soul. And when it
died away Herbie collapsed into a heap of motionless metal.
