Links for 29-03-2008
Human/robot empathy; Olympic weather hacking …
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1 – Please Don’t Kick the Robots
“This response is, at least to an extent, hard-wired — most of us react to the sight of an animal in distress with empathy for the creature and, if applicable, disgust for the person abusing it.”
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2 – Weather Engineering in China
“How the Chinese plan to modify the weather in Beijing during the Olympics, using supercomputers and artillery.” This is pure classic sf pulp … only it’s real.
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3 – Ascendancies by Bruce Sterling, reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy
Great review of a great short story collection.
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March 29th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Ah, so they’re working again. Jolly good.
March 29th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yes! We at del.icio.us tried to leave a comment on your note about the missing posts, but it seems our comments got caught in the spam filter.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:18 am
That’s good of you, Britta, thanks; looking in the spamtrap, it would appear the icio.us domain has been blacklisted for some reason. Is there any domain that doesn’t get subverted by spammers these days?