https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x Made with mirth...what even is mirth? How does Padlet come up with these words? Anyway, here's the padlet. en-us 2020-11-11 03:17:27 UTC 2020-11-11 11:26:36 UTC hello@padlet.com gdelcastillo https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x/wish/911356398 An important question where the concept of dual-use comes into play is with robots and AI. These could be used for tools of good, such as replacing workers in dangerous or potentially sickening situations, such as bomb-defusing or sewage-cleaning. However, it can also be used for bad, such as illegal behavior, or even the mass-murdering/poisoning of people. One has to wage all of the possible outcomes and only then think about proceeding with any one project.]]> 2020-11-11 03:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x/wish/911356398 gdelcastillo https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x/wish/911388693 If nuclear weapons were halted immediately after the Trinity test 'or even after Nagasaki', the United States would not be considered as much of a superpower as it is considered today. The most likely outcome of that would have been that the soviets succeed in making the bombs, and proceed to (potentially) invade more of Europe, expanding the Soviet Union to (potentially) all of the continent (or most of it, at least). The reason they did not concentrate on invasion after World War II was because of the weapons race and Cold War they were involved in with the United States due to both of them boosting up their nuclear arsenal for a potential attack, even though one never happened. Most of the scientists understood the ramifications a weaponized version of the splitting of the atom could have, and continued to move forward, to see it happen, to make sure that their educated hypothesis was right, not thinking of the fact that, the moment that bomb was created, it would be shortly thereafter used in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They believe science to be a power of good, but also have a personal drive to finish what has been started.]]> 2020-11-11 03:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x/wish/911388693 gdelcastillo https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x/wish/912383106 I feel like, today, nuclear technology has taken a halt. Nuclear energy has been almost unheard of in news and other coverages (and there are not many advocates out there preaching to switch to nuclear energy -- even though they should (see my research paper for thoughts on this)). Nuclear weapons and matters like these are steadily decreasing to the point of denuclearization of the entire planet within the next century, potentially. What concerns me is that, because of the use of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we shy away from the potential benefits the power of the splitting of the atom can have for society; the biggest example being nuclear energy/power.]]> 2020-11-11 11:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gdelcastillo/yhov4mxgq3q2n0x/wish/912383106