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Subject: Re: Automakers are ignoring the simple solution to the rise of
traffic deaths (RISKS-33.46)

Making vehicles go slower is likely to reduce the number of deaths and that
is not a bad thing, but it doesn't solve the real problem. What needs to be done is to reduce the number of accidents in the first place, and that means doing things that permit drivers to see where they are going and force them
to pay attention to their driving. This likely does require technical solutions but not expensive ones, and in many case it requires removing technology rather than adding it.

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:53:13 +0200
From: "Diego.Latella" <diego.latella@isti.cnr.it>
Subject: Castiglioncello 2022: Nuclear Weapons: New Risks

The next Castiglioncello International Conference (Oct. 21-22) will be
focused on "Nuclear Weapons: New Risks". The conference is organized by the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and the Union of Scientists for Disarmament (USPID).

The Municipality of Rosignano Marittimo, the Interdisciplinary Center of Sciences for Peace of the University of Pisa, the Interdepartmental Research Center for Peace of the University of Bari and the Interdisciplinary Group
on Science Technology and Society of the CNR Pisa Research Area collaborate
for the organization of the event.

For additional information, program and registration, please refer to the conference website: https://uspid.org/cast2022/

[I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection
for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer
systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on,
without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable
naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so
speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work
and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end
use. ne can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do
I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my
work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to
this use?" Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3)
2--7 Aug. 1986]]

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2020 11:11:11 -0800
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