Light in Space and New Laws for Robots

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If you could look at the night sky without stars, galaxies and everything else known to give off visible light, does the universe itself put out a glow? That's a question being addressed by the NOIRLab in Arizona, and the answer may surprise you. It certainly surprises Anthony and Jeff, who try to wrap their brains around new findings about light in the darkness. Then, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws for Robotics have been a part of science fiction and popular culture for decades. But now a new book proposes 4 additional laws to govern the creation of robots and AI. Jeff and Anthony take a look at these new laws to decide if they are a good idea.

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0:00.0	That's a story for another time. This is We Have Concerned, hi, Jeff Canada.
0:18.8	Hi Anthony Carmoni. Hello concerned citizens. Buddy, space is pre-dark.
0:25.3	Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the darkest. I mean, other than all those stars, you know,
0:31.7	a lot of stars up in there. They're a listen. Not only there are a lot of stars up there, Jeff,
0:36.7	all the stars are up there. Every single star is in space. Can you believe it?
0:41.2	I mean, except for the stars that I care about most, the stars that are just like us, you know.
0:48.4	The stars that should, they're light on Earth for us all to see,
0:52.2	you know, us weekly. You never see Proxima B running out with a Starbucks, you know, in some
0:59.8	upboots with an infinity scarf, because Proxima B is not like us. No, not like us. Proxima B is a
1:07.3	gas giant. I'm making this up. I don't know about Proxima B, but this is an award-winning
1:11.9	science podcast, by the way. Yes. Jeff, this is a metaphor that we hear all the time as fans of
1:19.8	sci-fi, as fans of things, the blackness of outer space, the vast,
1:23.2	vast reaches of space, then absence of light, the absence of everything except for I guess dark matter.
1:29.6	But it's got dark right in the name. It's got, yeah, even the matter's got dark right in there.
1:34.3	My guy, this is a story that was sent into the discord by ESO. By the way, ESO determined,
1:42.4	determined to get a story in this week. I'm really killing it. Just a, just a, went into the
1:48.4	discord into the science, cool science stories channel and said, I only got time for one thing
1:53.6	this week. And that's to be in the show. I'm dropping 10 interesting stories in. I got nothing to
1:58.4	say about any of them. I'm out. Yeah. ESO's got my story too. It's all ESO week. It's a four-year
2:04.3	week. And you know what? ESO, you deserve it. He, he, you know what? He min-maxed it. He found
2:11.2	a loophole in our system. Yeah. We have a cool science news channel on the discord. Discord's
2:15.6	great, by the way, if you want access to the discord, patreon.com slash we have concerns.
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