Technology, Democratic Rationalization and the Sex Consent App

CanadianEye · Jan 17, 2012

Technology, Democratic Rationalization and the Sex Consent App

A bit of a preamble for some informational backdrops to my conjecture while bored at work.

Democratic Rationalization and Technology. A link below written by Andrew Feenberg

http://www.dogma.lu/txt/AF_democratic-rationalization.htm

Some interesting perspectives on technology and social issues and democratic rationalization of horizons, and especially in a rapidly advancing technological world.

Feenberg advances numerous positions, but of interest is the understanding of moving towards the horizon of and not being limited by fear of the possible repercussions of advancement, inclusive of the technological. He uses steam boat boiler safety via governmental regulation and child labor changes to simply just the males in the workplace society, to highlight his position.

So, to the conjecture.

There are many social justice issues that hinge upon sexual liasons. Below are the ones I can think of:

Intoxication acknowledgment (probably never to be legally binding)
Marital Status (probably a good one to have)
Direct Consent Confirmation of Sex (probably a good one for after the fact rape claims)
STDs (probably a good one to have)
Birth Control acknowledgment (probably a good one to have)
Financial Support obligations for children (interesting one ref the above BC acknowledgement)

Could (or should) an app be introduced, to be the technological equivalent of a prenuptial agreement and, in the non limiting acknowledgment of the horizon, become as recognized as the prenup in the sexual liason arena?

The app could work similar to the touch phone to phone apps that directly can deposit funds to another bank account. Phones connect, a password is requested (giving some sort of legal future strength) and the checklist is gone through. The password could also include a special duress code, similar to what the military uses.

I am thinking along the lines that about 3 of the acknowledged points to start with, and let social applications expand over time, or not. Marital Status, STDs and Direct Consent Confirmation of Sex to start with.

Perceived societal ramifications? Never to be a legally binding agreement?

botenth · Jan 17, 2012

Does it have anything to do with sex?

CanadianEye · Jan 17, 2012

botenth said: ↑

Does it have anything to do with sex?
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Yes.

I have been bouncing it around work today, and gettng lots of very interesting replies, and a lot of ground breaking app knowledge.

There is an app that when you spit on your smart device, it can read certain health issues you have. Imagine, in the context of what I was conjecturing today, to say when the tech grades up to simply breathing on the smart device, it will read intoxication levels etc.

waltky · Sep 2, 2016

Will technology and bioscience be the undoing of liberal democracies?...

Technology and bioscience might be a threat to liberal democracies
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 - A book by historian Yuval Harari claims that artificial intelligence and genetic enhancements will usher in a world of inequality and powerful elites

The BBC Reith Lectures in 1967 were given by Edmund Leach, a Cambridge social anthropologist. Men have become like gods, Leach began. Isnt it about time that we understood our divinity? Science offers us total mastery over our environment and over our destiny, yet instead of rejoicing, we feel deeply afraid. That was about half a century ago and yet Leachs opening lines could easily apply to today. He was speaking before the Internet had been built and long before the human genome had been decoded and so his claim about men becoming like gods seems relatively modest compared with the capabilities that molecular biology and computing have subsequently bestowed upon us. Our science-based culture is the most powerful in history and it is ceaselessly researching, exploring, developing and growing. However, in recent times it seems to have also become plagued with existential angst as the implications of human ingenuity begin to be dimly glimpsed.

The title that Leach chose for his Reith Lecture A Runaway World captures our zeitgeist too. At any rate, we are also increasingly fretful about a world that seems to be running out of control, largely, but not solely, because of information technology and what the life sciences are making possible. We seek consolation in the thought that it was always thus: People felt alarmed about steam in George Eliots time and got worked up about electricity, the telegraph and the telephone as they arrived on the scene. The reassuring implication is that we weathered those technological storms, and so we will weather this one too. Humankind will muddle through. However, in the past five years or so even that cautious, pragmatic optimism has begun to erode. There are several reasons for this loss of confidence. One is the sheer vertiginous pace of technological change. Another is that the new forces at loose in our society particularly information technology and the life sciences are potentially more far-reaching in their implications than steam or electricity ever were. And, third, we have begun to see startling advances in these fields that have forced us to recalibrate our expectations.

Illustration: Mountain People

A classic example is the field of artificial intelligence (AI), defined as the quest to enable machines to do things that would require intelligence if performed by a human. For as long as most of us can remember, AI in that sense was always 20 years away from the date of prediction. Maybe it still is, but in the past few years we have seen that the combination of machine learning, powerful algorithms, vast processing power and so-called Big Data can enable machines to do very impressive things real-time language translation, for example, or driving cars safely through complex urban environments that seemed implausible even a decade ago.

And this, in turn, has led to a renewal of excited speculation about the possibility and the existential risks of the intelligence explosion that would be caused by inventing a machine that was capable of recursive self-improvement. This possibility was first raised in 1965 by the British cryptographer I.J. Good, who famously wrote: The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

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