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"Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models"

James Mickens

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...




This is definitely the most hilarious one, James is a genius.


Added in Watch later yesterday. Absolutely fun and knowledgeable. You might also check his home page[1], contains good and important stuff like this one.

[1]. https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens


I understand why some criticizes the lack of depth of Mickens' presentation. But, you got to admit that getting people to be interested in engineering ethics is remarquable.


This guy is a philosopher


He's fun for sure. Also there are actual philosophers like Jaron Lanier with higher level and more poignant analysis of the same problem that I can't recommend enough as at least a good read.


Watched 20 minutes of it. Fairly amusing but if you know anything about machine learning you won't learn anything.


You should watch the whole thing.


Eh I feel like a talk should tell you one thing that only the speaker knows in the first 20 minutes.




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