Galileo è responsabile della bomba atomica?

On September 26, 1983, in a bunker near Moscow, a man named Stanislav Petrov sees the screen that no one should ever see light up: five incoming American missiles, a sure thing. The protocol is clear: he must notify the Kremlin, and the Kremlin will respond with everything it has. But Petrov doesn't pick up the phone. He pauses and asks himself a question no manual ever asked him to ask. That question saved us all. And to understand why we've reached the point of building machines capable of erasing us, and entrusting those same machines with the decision whether or not to do so, we must go back three hundred and fifty years, to an old man on his knees in a room in Rome. ✍️ Subscribe to the Prolisso newsletter. You can find it here 👉 https://substack.com/@andreapassador 📚 My novel Emme di Marcello https://amzn.to/4wgSzb6 As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases 📚 Books Life of Galileo: Brecht https://amzn.to/3R70b0b SOURCES AND READINGS The incident of September 26, 1983: Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet air defense officer, and the false alarm from the Oko early warning satellite system, which mistook the sun's reflection on high-altitude clouds for the launch of five US ballistic missiles. Petrov judged that a real American attack would have used many more, and he did not report it as a real attack, avoiding a possible nuclear retaliation. (1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident; Arms Control Association.) Galileo Galilei's abjuration, June 22, 1633, Convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. The "and yet it moves" is almost certainly an apocryphal anecdote of later attribution. Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo" (Leben des Galilei): the first draft is from 1938, but the decisive version is the one rewritten after Hiroshima (American edition, 1947, with Charles Laughton), in which Brecht emphasizes the scientist's responsibility and guilt. The quote about the astronomers' oath and the "race of inventor gnomes" rentable for any purpose is taken from Galileo's final monologue in the dialogue with his student Andrea Sarti. Sigmund Freud, "A Difficulty of Psychoanalysis" (1917): the three narcissistic wounds inflicted by science on human pride—cosmological (Copernicus and Galileo), biological (Darwin), psychological (the unconscious). The "fourth wound" related to generative artificial intelligence is a contemporary extension of mine. The military origins of civilian technology: the internet was born from ARPANET, a DARPA (U.S. Department of Defense) project; GPS was born from the U.S. Air Force's satellite system. 📌 CHAPTERS 00:00 The Night the World Almost Ended (Petrov, 1983) 02:40 Galileo's Abjuration, 1633 05:20 Brecht: Why Abjuration Is a Betrayal 09:30 Rentable Gnomes: From Weapons to Big Tech 12:40 Wounds to Human Pride (Freud) and AI's Fourth Wound 14:20 Back to Petrov: The Question a Machine Won't Ask 🎙️ Prolisso is the least listened to podcast in Italy. If you enjoyed the video, tell me in the comments whether you think artificial intelligence is today's mad scientist or whether the madman, as always, is the one who controls it, and subscribe to the channel so you don't miss future episodes. This is the first long video I've attempted: if you've made it to the end, it means everything to me. #long-winded #Galileo #Brecht #artificialintelligence #atomic #ethics #science #philosophy #bigtech #history