Rieko did relate the tale of Captain Wolfe, who had plundered the coasts of Garund nearly a century before. He was so successful that he was offered the crown of the Hurricane King, which he refused. His vast wealth was then split up and secreted about, but the choicest part was secreted in a place guarded by a beast from the depths of hell.
We did find a Chelish ship in the midst of sinking of Shackles pirate and, as was our wont, snuck up upon it. Finding it little guarded, we took it with only a small effort and later gifted it to the remnants of the pirate crew in exchange for their service to Chopper.
After this exchange, we made our way to Mancatcher Cove. It was a very nice deepwater cove with little to no beach and high cliffs. While we were approaching, I sighted a ship slipping away behind another island in the archipelago. Upon closer scrutiny, the ship proved to be the Thresher, Inkskin Locke's ship.
When he was notified, Captain Chopper ordered us away and after her. The battle was brief, with our catapult making short work of her sails and the ballista making even shorter work of her wheel. The fight aboard was bloody, leaving only a handful of their crew alive.
Afterwards, Chopper set then in longboat and sent them into the cove to check for the beast we had been warned of. No such monster showed itself, but the longboat was tipped and the remaining crew consumed by sharks.


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The best way to address your little companions leash reactivity during walks happens long before they come into visible contact with another dog. Trying to address the reactivity when it's happening, when your dog is already stressed and at their worst is not a winning strategy. If we are allowing them to act upon their impulses (pulling, sniffing, leash biting, marking, lunging, jumping, spinning, etc.), we cannot be surprised when they do what we have trained them to do: listen to their impulse rather than us. Allowing the bad habits of acting upon their impulses is encouraging our dogs to be disconnected and pushy, rather than attentive and polite.
So what can we do to win over our dogs? We win by creating a structured walk. We do it by having our dogs walk in a relaxed and calm heel. No more pulling on leash, sniffing whatever comes their way, no more intensely staring at other dogs, etc.. We need them to look to us for guidance and permission. If you set up your walk in this fashion - listen instead of ignore, patient instead of pushy, relaxed and calm instead of being stressed. If you see giving your dog the gift of comfort and peace of mind that comes from leadership and structure, you'll see some profound changes in your dog's behavior on walks. Remember, you win the battle of reactivity, long before the actual fight.
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Rationality: An Introduction
by Rob Bensinger12 min read11th Mar 20155 comments
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In the autumn of 1951, a football game between Dartmouth and Princeton turned unusually rough. A pair of psychologists, Dartmouth's Albert Hastorf and Princeton's Hadley Cantril, decided to ask students from both schools which team had initiated the rough play. Nearly everyone agreed that Princeton hadn't started it; but 86% of Princeton students believed that Dartmouth had started it, whereas only 36% of Dartmouth students blamed Dartmouth. (Most Dartmouth students believed "both started it.")
When shown a film of the game later and asked to count the infractions they saw, Dartmouth students claimed to see a mean of 4.3 infractions by the Dartmouth team (and identified half as "mild"), whereas Princeton students claimed to see a mean of 9.8 Dartmouth infractions (and identified a third as "mild").1
When something we value is threatened—our world-view, our in-group, our social standing, or something else we care about—our thoughts and perceptions rally to their defense.2,3 Some psychologists go so far as to hypothesize that the human ability to come up with explicit justifications for our conclusions evolved specifically to help us win arguments.4
One of the basic insights of 20th-century psychology is that human behavior is often driven by sophisticated unconscious processes, and the stories we tell ourselves about our motives and reasons are much more biased and confabulated than we realize. We often fail, in fact, to realize that we're doing any story-telling. When we seem to "directly perceive" things about ourselves in introspection, it often turns out to rest on tenuous implicit causal models.5,6 When we try to argue for our beliefs, we can come up with shaky reasoning bearing no relation to how we first arrived at the belief.7 Rather than trusting explanations in proportion to their predictive power, we tend to trust stories in proportion to their psychological appeal.
How can we do better? How can we arrive at a realistic view of the world, when we're so prone to rationalization? How can we come to a realistic view of our mental lives, when our thoughts about thinking are also suspect?
What's the least shaky place we could put our weight down?
At the turn of the 20th century, coming up with simple (e.g., set-theoretic) axioms for arithmetic gave mathematicians a clearer standard by which to judge the correctness of their conclusions. If a human or calculator outputs "2 + 2 = 4," we can now do more than just say "that seems intuitively right." We can explain why it's right, and we can prove that its rightness is tied in systematic ways to the rightness of the rest of arithmetic.
But mathematics lets us model the behaviors of physical systems that are a lot more interesting than a pocket calculator. We can also formalize rational belief in general, using probability theory to pick out features held in common by all successful forms of inference. We can even formalize rational behavior in general by drawing upon decision theory.
Probability theory defines how we would ideally reason in the face of uncertainty, if we had the requisite time, computing power, and mental control. Given some background knowledge (priors) and a new piece of evidence, probability theory uniquely and precisely defines the best set of new beliefs (posterior) I could adopt. Likewise, decision theory defines what action I should take based on my beliefs. For any consistent set of beliefs and preferences I could have, there is a decision-theoretic answer to how I should then act in order to satisfy my preferences.
Suppose you find out that one of your six classmates has a crush on you—perhaps you get a letter from a secret admirer, and you're sure it's from one of those six—but you have no idea which of the six it is. Bob happens to be one of those six classmates. If you have no special reason to think Bob's any likelier (or any less likely) than the other five candidates, then what are the odds that Bob is the one with the crush?
Answer: The odds are 1:5. There are six possibilities, so a wild guess would result in you getting it right once for every five times you got it wrong, on average.
We can't say, "Well, I have no idea who has a crush on me; maybe it's Bob, or maybe it's not. So I'll just say the odds are fifty-fifty." Even if we would rather say "I don't know" or "Maybe" and stop there, the right answer is still 1:5. This follows from the assumption that there are six possibilities and you have no reason to favor one of them over any of the others.8
Suppose that you've also noticed you get winked at by people ten times as often when they have a crush on you. If Bob then winks at you, that's a new piece of evidence. In that case, it would be a mistake to stay skeptical about whether Bob is your secret admirer; the 10:1 odds in favor of "a random person who winks at me has a crush on me" outweigh the 1:5 odds against "Bob has a crush on me."
It would also be a mistake to say, "That evidence is so strong, it's a sure bet that he's the one who has the crush on me! I'll just assume from now on that Bob is into me." Overconfidence is just as bad as underconfidence.
In fact, there's only one viable answer to this question too. To change our mind from the 1:5 prior odds in response to the evidence's 10:1 likelihood ratio, we multiply the left sides together and the right sides together, getting 10:5 posterior odds, or 2:1 odds in favor of "Bob has a crush on me." Given our assumptions and the available evidence, guessing that Bob has a crush on you will turn out to be correct 2 times for every 1 time it turns out to be wrong. Equivalently: the probability that he's attracted to you is 2/3. Any other confidence level would be inconsistent.
It turns out that given very modest constraints, the question "What should I believe?" has an objectively right answer. It has a right answer when you're wracked with uncertainty, not just when you have a conclusive proof. There is always a correct amount of confidence to have in a statement, even when it looks more like a "personal belief" instead of an expert-verified "fact."
Yet we often talk as though the existence of uncertainty and disagreement makes beliefs a mere matter of taste. We say "that's just my opinion" or "you're entitled to your opinion," as though the assertions of science and math existed on a different and higher plane than beliefs that are merely "private" or "subjective." To which economist Robin Hanson has responded:9
You are never entitled to your opinion. Ever! You are not even entitled to "I don't know." You are entitled to your desires, and sometimes to your choices. You might own a choice, and if you can choose your preferences, you may have the right to do so. But your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things are; anything else is a lie. [ . . . ]
It is true that some topics give experts stronger mechanisms for resolving disputes. On other topics our biases and the complexity of the world make it harder to draw strong conclusions. [ . . . ]
But never forget that on any question about the way things are (or should be), and in any information situation, there is always a best estimate. You are only entitled to your best honest effort to find that best estimate; anything else is a lie.
Our culture hasn't internalized the lessons of probability theory—that the correct answer to questions like "How sure can I be that Bob has a crush on me?" is just as logically constrained as the correct answer to a question on an algebra quiz or in a geology textbook.
Our brains are kludges slapped together by natural selection. Humans aren't perfect reasoners or perfect decision-makers, any more than we're perfect calculators. Even at our best, we don't compute the exact right answer to "what should I think?" and "what should I do?"10
And yet, knowing we can't become fully consistent, we can certainly still get better. Knowing that there's an ideal standard we can compare ourselves to—what researchers call Bayesian rationality—can guide us as we improve our thoughts and actions. Though we'll never be perfect Bayesians, the mathematics of rationality can help us understand why a certain answer is correct, and help us spot exactly where we messed up.
Imagine trying to learn math through rote memorization alone. You might be told that "10 + 3 = 13," "31 + 108 = 139," and so on, but it won't do you a lot of good unless you understand the pattern behind the squiggles. It can be a lot harder to seek out methods for improving your rationality when you don't have a general framework for judging a method's success. The purpose of this book is to help people build for themselves such frameworks.
The tightly linked essays in How to Actually Change Your Mind were originally written by Eliezer Yudkowsky for the blog Overcoming Bias. Published in the late 2000s, these posts helped inspire the growth of a vibrant community interested in rationality and self-improvement.
Map and Territory was the first such collection. How to Actually Change Your Mind is the second. The full six-book set, titled Rationality: From AI to Zombies, can be found on Less Wrong at http://lesswrong.com/rationality.
One of the rationality community's most popular writers, Scott Alexander, has previously observed:11
[O]bviously it's useful to have as much evidence as possible, in the same way it's useful to have as much money as possible. But equally obviously it's useful to be able to use a limited amount of evidence wisely, in the same way it's useful to be able to use a limited amount of money wisely.
Rationality techniques help us get more mileage out of the evidence we have, in cases where the evidence is inconclusive or our biases are distorting how we interpret the evidence.
This applies to our personal lives, as in the tale of Bob. It applies to disagreements between political factions and sports fans. And it applies to philosophical puzzles and debates about the future trajectory of technology and society. Recognizing that the same mathematical rules apply to each of these domains (and that in many cases the same cognitive biases crop up), How to Actually Change Your Mind freely moves between a wide range of topics.
The first sequence of essays in this book, Overly Convenient Excuses, focuses on probabilistically "easy" questions—ones where the odds are extreme, and systematic errors seem like they should be particularly easy to spot.…
From there, we move into murkier waters with Politics and Rationality. Politics—or rather, mainstream national politics of the sort debated by TV pundits—is famous for its angry, unproductive discussions. On the face of it, there's something surprising about that. Why do we take political disagreements so personally, even though the machinery and effects of national politics are often so distant from us in space or in time? For that matter, why do we not become more careful and rigorous with the evidence when we're dealing with issues we deem important?
The Dartmouth-Princeton game hints at an answer. Much of our reasoning process is really rationalization—story-telling that makes our current beliefs feel more coherent and justified, without necessarily improving their accuracy. Against Rationalization speaks to this problem, followed by Seeing with Fresh Eyes, on the challenge of recognizing evidence that doesn't fit our expectations and assumptions.
In practice, leveling up in rationality often means encountering interesting and powerful new ideas and colliding more with the in-person rationality community. Death Spirals discusses some important hazards that can afflict groups united around common interests and amazing shiny ideas, which rationalists will need to overcome if they're to translate their high-minded ideas into real-world effectiveness. How to Actually Change Your Mind then concludes with a sequence on Letting Go.
Our natural state isn't to change our minds like a Bayesian would. Getting the Dartmouth and Princeton students to notice what they're actually seeing won't be as easy as reciting the axioms of probability theory to them. As philanthropic research analyst Luke Muehlhauser writes in "The Power of Agency":12
You are not a Bayesian homunculus whose reasoning is "corrupted" by cognitive biases.
You just are cognitive biases.
Confirmation bias, status quo bias, correspondence bias, and the like are not tacked on to our reasoning; they are its very substance.
That doesn't mean that debiasing is impossible. We aren't perfect calculators underneath all our arithmetic errors, either. Many of our mathematical limitations result from very deep facts about how the human brain works. Yet we can train our mathematical abilities; we can learn when to trust and distrust our mathematical intuitions; we can shape our environments to make things easier on us. And if we're wrong today, we can be less so tomorrow.
1 Albert Hastorf and Hadley Cantril, "They Saw a Game: A Case Study," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 49 (1954): 129–134, http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/Psyc590Readings/Hastorf1954.pdf.
2 Emily Pronin, "How We See Ourselves and How We See Others," Science 320 (2008): 1177–1180.
3 Robert P. Vallone, Lee Ross, and Mark R. Lepper, "The Hostile Media Phenomenon: Biased Perception and Perceptions of Media Bias in Coverage of the Beirut Massacre," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 49 (1985): 577–585, http://ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/965/hwang.pdf.
4 Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, "Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (2011): 57–74, http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/904097/filename/MercierSperberWhydohumansreason.pdf.
5 Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy D. Wilson, "Telling More than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes," Psychological Review 84 (1977): 231–259, http://people.virginia.edu/~tdw/nisbett&wilson.pdf.
6 Eric Schwitzgebel, Perplexities of Consciousness (MIT Press, 2011).
7 Jonathan Haidt, "The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment," Psychological Review 108, no. 4 (2001): 814–834, doi:10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.814.
8 We're also assuming, unrealistically, that you can really be certain the admirer is one of those six people, and that you aren't neglecting other possibilities. (What if more than one of your classmates has a crush on you?)
9 Robin Hanson, "You Are Never Entitled to Your Opinion," Overcoming Bias (Blog), 2006, http://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/you_are_never_e.html.
10 We lack the computational resources (and evolution lacked the engineering expertise and foresight) to iron out all our bugs. Indeed, even a maximally efficient reasoner in the real world would still need to rely on heuristics and approximations. The best possible computationally tractable algorithms for changing beliefs would still fall short of probability theory's consistency.
11 Scott Alexander, "Why I Am Not Rene Descartes," Slate Star Codex (Blog), 2014, http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/27/why-i-am-not-rene-descartes/.
12 Luke Muehlhauser, "The Power of Agency," Less Wrong (Blog), 2011, http://lesswrong.com/lw/5i8/the_power_of_agency/.
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[-]cjkatfish3y
Tremendous article. Thank you. I feel like you threw my mental football 30 yards downfield. I use a model that this dovetails perfectly with. Can't wait to read the rest.
[-]naimenz2y
In the example with Bob, surely the odds of Bob having a crush on you after winking (2:1) should be higher than a random person winking at you (given as 10:1), as we already have reason to suspect that Bob is more likely to have a crush on you than some random person not part of the six.
[-]Liliet B2y
Not if you consider that the 1:5 figure constrains that ONLY one person among the six has a crush on you. If you learn for a fact one does, you'll also immediately know the others all don't. Which is not true for a random selection of students - you could randomly pick six that all have a crush on you. Bob belongs to a group in which you know for a fact five people DON'T have a crush on you. So you have evidence lowering Bob's odds relative to a random winker.
Either that, or it doesn't matter how many actually have a crush on you, you're looking for the specific one you have definite evidence about. For thisy, a random winker is not qualified to enter the comparison at all - if they're not one of the six, they're not the person you're looking for. So Bob might have a crush on you AND not be the person you're looking for, although his odds are higher than those of the other five you don't have any evidence about.
That's the interpretations that make the math not wrong, anyway. If you only know that "at least one of them has a crush on me" and more than one could potentially satisfy your search criteria, the 1:5 figure is not the right odds.
[-]jeronimo1962y
What Liliet B said. Low priors will screw with you even after a "definitive" experiment. You might also want to take a look at this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTXWPQSEgoMkAupKt/an-intuitive-explanation-of-bayes-s-theorem


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Coast Guard rescue crews rescued three boaters Monday after their vessel became disabled and adrift and was taking on water, approximately 55 nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
One man and a woman, U.S. citizens, residents of Charleston, South Carolina, and another man, a citizen of the United Kingdom, were traveling from the Turks and Caicos Islands to Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, aboard the 57-foot motor vessel Grace.
Coast Guard controllers in Sector San Juan received an emergency radio call via VHF-Channel 16 at approximately 5:45 a.m. Monday from one of the passengers aboard the Grace, who reported the distress and requested Coast Guard assistance.
Coast Guard controllers launched an Air Station Borinquen HH-65 Dolphin helicopter and diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Sapelo to assist. The Coast Guard helicopter crew located the boaters, verified that they were safe and lowered a water pump to assist them with dewatering their vessel. The Sapelo also arrived on scene and the crew embarked the boaters and prepared to tow the Grace to safety to Mayaguez Harbor, Puerto Rico.
Boaters are reminded to equip their vessels with safety equipment, be mindful of state boating laws, and be courteous to fellow boaters while operating on the water.
There should be a personal flotation device on the vessel for each person, sized accordingly.
Boaters should have flares and an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon with 406 MHz capabilities to enable a faster response by the Coast Guard in the event of an emergency.
Boaters should have an operational marine VHF radio on their boat in order to contact the Coast Guard on channel 16, in the event an emergency. Due to the high mountainous areas throughout the region, boaters should not rely on their cell phones as a means of communication. In order to expedite the Coast Guard's response in an emergency, mariners should have a GPS unit onboard or, at a minimum, maintain a knowledge of local waters and know their location at all times. The Coast Guard reminds radio operators that VHF channel 16 is an emergency channel and that improper transmission on channel 16 not only hampers Coast Guard response, but is punishable under federal law.
The Coast Guard strongly recommends that all boaters file a float plan with a friend or family member on land, with an approximate time of return and location to which you will be heading. It is also recommended that you regularly check in with those who are aware of your plan, especially if your plan should change.
Mariners should check current and forecasted weather conditions prior to getting underway, and remain aware of changing conditions once on the water. The National Weather Service broadcasts weather conditions throughout the day on VHF channel WX2. The Coast Guard broadcasts weather conditions on VHF channel 22A. Current weather information and advisories can be found on the National Weather Service website. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/west/mtrmz.htm.
It is against the law for anyone to operate a vessel under the influence of alcohol. Consumption of alcohol by anyone else aboard is also strongly discouraged.


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The Griffins and Barons are set to square off tonight in Grand Rapids for Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals. Grand Rapids currently leads the series 3-2 and has the opportunity to clinch their first Calder Cup Finals berth in team history.
The team was founded in 1996 as part of the now-defunct International Hockey League. They were the last team to be founded and were only able to play five seasons in the IHL before the league dissolved.
Grand Rapids was absorbed into the American Hockey League in 2001, but has never appeared in the Calder Cup Finals (but they did play in the Turner Cup Finals in the 1999-2000 IHL season, losing the series 4-2 against the Chicago Wolves). That could all change tonight.
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Goaltender Petr Mrazek currently has a shutout streak of 163.23 minutes. The last goal he allowed was back in the first period of Game 3. He has stopped 101 consecutive shots. His playoff save-percentage has improved to .927, and his goals-against average is now 1.95.
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After a scoreless first period, Griffins forward Tomas Jurco scored the game's first goal 35:13 in. Mitch Callahan scored a short-handed goal with 2:48 to play in the second period with the help of Andersson and Brennan Evans. In the same period, Tatar scored a powerplay goal from Andersson and Billins with 33 seconds remaining in the stanza. This goal would be the last one scored in the game, with Mrazek keeping the lead safely intact.
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protest activities against the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. The protesters were met by the Chicago Police Department in the streets and parks of Chicago before and during the convention, including indiscriminate police violence against protesters, reporters, photographers, and bystanders that was later described by the  National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence as a "police riot".

During the evening of August 28, 1968, with the police riot in full swing on Michigan Avenue in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, the Conrad Hilton hotel, television networks broadcast live as the anti-war protesters began the now-iconic chant "The whole world is watching".

Planning

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

In the fall of 1967, members of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (often referred to as "MOBE"), which was directed by David Dellinger, proposed a massive anti-war demonstration to coincide with the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In early 1968, the National Mobilization Committee opened a Chicago office directed by Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden, who were leading political organizers at the time and former leaders of Students for a Democratic Society.

MOBE was an umbrella organization that included groups who were opposed to American participation in the Vietnam War. MOBE was run by a small executive board that set up a general framework for mass demonstrations, sent out invitations to the over 500 groups on its mailing lists, and coordinated activities between the groups.

MOBE recognized and supported all tactics from marching to civil disobedience. MOBE's main aim was to get the largest turnouts at its functions. David Dellinger, MOBE chairman, believed that "The tendency to intensify militancy without organizing wide political support [was] self-defeating. But so [was] the tendency to draw way from militancy into milder and more conventional forms of protest."

For Chicago, MOBE originally planned for two large-scale marches and an end of convention rally at Soldier Field. The goal was originally a massive show of force outside the International Amphitheatre.  MOBE also planned to have workshops and movement centers distributed in 10 parks throughout the city, many in predominantly black areas, to allow demonstrators and participating groups to follow their particular focuses.

Youth International Party

The Youth International Party was one of the major groups in the organization of the protests. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and a few friends engaged in conversation at Hoffman's apartment on New Year's Eve, 1967. They discussed the events of the year, such as the Summer of Love and the Pentagon demonstration. The idea of having a free music festival in Chicago was suggested to defuse political tension. Over the next week, the Youth International Party took shape. Its members, known as "Yippies" politicized hippie ideology and used street theater and other tactics to critique the culture of the United States and induce change.

In preparation for the Chicago convention, the Yippies held the "Yip-In", and the "Yip-Out" at Grand Central Station in New York City. Both events were planned simply as "be-ins", with live music. The event was used to promote peace, love and harmony, and as a trial run for Chicago.  The black banner of an anarchist group was hung on the wall, bearing the words, "Up Against the Wall Mother Fucker" in red. Police stood by watching the crowds. As the "Yip-In" progressed, relations between the police and Yippies became strained. Two people climbed a large clock and removed the hands; the police responded by clearing the station. They formed a skirmish line, ordered the people to disperse, and then started forcing their way through the crowd.

The "Yip-Out" was similar in purpose but held in Central Park. To obtain the permits and aid from New York City officials necessary for the event, Yippies performed a sit-in at the mayor's office until the Mayor would negotiate on permits. In the end, an agreement was made on staging, electricity, police presence, bathrooms, and other necessities for running a music festival.  Police milled in the crowd giving considerable leeway to the proceedings which led to a peaceable day.

The Yippies took a radical approach to the Democratic National Convention. They wrote articles, published fliers, made speeches and held rallies and demonstrations, to announce that they were coming to Chicago. Threats were made that nails would be thrown from overpasses to block roads; cars would be used to block intersections, main streets, police stations and National Guard armories; LSD would be dumped in the city's water supply and the convention would be stormed. However, none of these threats came to fruition. Nonetheless, city officials in Chicago prepared for all possible threats. A vilification campaign led by Chicago authorities worked in favor of the Yippies' plan.

One of the Yippies' main tactics was to use street theatre to create an experience that drew the attention of mainstream America. Yippie activities were used to put across the message that the average American didn't have control over the political process. They tried to show this by purposefully participating in non-traditional activities that would not conceivably affect the decision-making process in the convention hall, unlike a "straight" protest with picket lines, marches, and rallies which could conceivably convince delegates of mass support for a program. On a Wednesday night, networks moved their coverage away from the Amphitheater where the delegates were voting on the nomination, to a "pitched battle" in front of the Conrad Hilton hotel.

Prelude

Official responses
In the buildup to the Convention, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley repeatedly announced "Law and order will be maintained".

Chicago's security forces prepared for the protests during the convention.  Besides the standard gun and billy club, Chicago Police Department officers had mace and riot helmets. For the convention, the CPD borrowed a new portable communications system from the military, thus increasing communication between field officers and command posts.  All summer long, police officers had received refresher training on crowd control and riot techniques.  During the convention itself, Police Academy instructors were with the reserve forces, giving last-minute reminders.

 Mayor Daley, citing intelligence reports of potential violence, put the 12,000 members of the Chicago Police Department on twelve-hour shifts, while the U.S. Army placed 6,000 troops in position to protect the city during the convention and nearly 6,000 members of the National Guard were sent to the city, with an additional 5,000 National Guard on alert, bolstered by up to 1,000  FBI and military intelligence officers, and 1,000 Secret Service agents.

To satisfy manpower requirements, the City put the force on 12-hour shifts, instead of the normal 8-hour shifts. This gave police commanders approximately 50% more field officers to deal with disturbances.  Two-thirds of the officers would continue with the normal police duties with the remaining third available for special assignment. In the Amphitheatre, the City concentrated 500 officers filling various roles.  In Lincoln Park, the number of officers patrolling during the daytime was doubled, but the majority of the officers assigned to the Lincoln Park area were held in reserve, ready to respond to any disturbance.

In suspected trouble areas, police patrols were heavy.  Further away from the center patrols were less frequent.  This allowed the police to shift easily and quickly to control a problem without leaving an area unguarded.  While maintaining a public image of total enforcement of all city, state, and federal laws, the Narcotics division was quietly reassigned to regular fieldwork, curtailing anti-drug operations during the DNC.

Police officials and Mayor Daley had worked with the National Guard to create a plan to effectively use the Guard.  It would be called up at the beginning of the convention, but held in reserve at strategically placed armories or collection points such as Soldier Field. With the Guard in place at their armories, the CPD could request and receive assistance quickly.

Permits

Both MOBE and Yippie needed permits from the city in order to hold their respective events. The City had several reasons for denying permits to MOBE and Yippie and thus stalled issuing permits.  The City was worried about a black rebellion, independent of the white protesters, during the convention.  To avoid trouble, the City used its influence with black community organizations such as The Woodlawn Organization, the Black Consortium, and Operation Breadbasket to try to keep their constituents calm and peaceful.  Some of the militant black leaders were encouraged to leave town during the convention to avoid being implicated in any violence.

The City also believed that having large numbers of white protesters marching through the black ghettos with a heavy police or National Guard escort would inflame the ghettos and set off rioting.  Therefore, the City categorically denied any permit that included parks in or march routes through black areas.

Another argument the City used to deny permits was that the permits asked the City to set aside local and state ordinances.  A city ordinance closed the city parks at 11 pm, although this was not strictly enforced. In a letter to Yippie, Deputy Mayor David Stahl gave eight rules for Yippie to follow, including submitting detailed plans and requirements, following all city, state, and federal ordinances, and toning down the rhetoric. The Yippies refused, so the City felt justified in denying Yippie their permits.

In a last-ditch effort, MOBE filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking it to force Chicago to issue permits for a rally in Soldier Field or Grant Park.  Judge Lynch, Daley's former law partner, heard the case, and summarily dismissed the request, citing that the city could deny permits on the basis of protecting "public comfort, convenience, and welfare".

Protests

August 22: Shooting of Dean Johnson
The start of the convention week's violence is sometimes traced to the shooting of Dean Johnson by Chicago police officers. Dean Johnson, age 17, and another boy were stopped on the sidewalk by the officers for a curfew violation early on the morning of Thursday, August 22. When Johnson drew and fired a pistol at police (the gun misfired), police officers returned fire, hitting Johnson three times. The Yippies and SDS hastily organized a memorial service for Johnson, but as one observer noted, due to poor planning "it turned out that no one had made any plans to actually do anything. We just milled around and began to fill up the intersection. Two squad cars pulled up and the cops got out and told us to keep moving ... but they were pretty gentle about it".

August 23: Planned protests
On Friday, August 23, Jerry Rubin and other Yippies attempted to formally nominate the Yippie candidate for president, Pigasus, a pig. By the time Rubin arrived with Pigasus, several hundred spectators and reporters had gathered on the Civic Center plaza. Police officers were waiting, and after the pig was released, Rubin, folk singer Phil Ochs, and five other Yippies were arrested.

August 24: Marches

At 6 a.m. on Saturday, August 24, continuous surveillance began in Lincoln Park. For the previous several nights, the police had cleared Lincoln Park at 11 p.m. and maintained a significant presence during the day. Women Strike for Peace attempted to hold a women-only picket at the Hilton Hotel, the main delegate hotel. Despite plans for buses from around the country to bring hundreds of picketers, only 60 or so women showed up.

It was generally agreed upon to not attempt to stay in Lincoln Park after the curfew, but to rather take the protest to the streets. At exactly 11 p.m., poet Allen Ginsberg led protesters out of the park into the streets. SDS leaders organized several hundred protesters to march through the streets chanting things such as 'Peace Now' while the police simply guarded Lincoln Park. When the crowd stopped at Wells and North Avenue, blocking the intersection, a police contingent arrived and cleared the crowd. Eleven people were arrested and several police cars were stoned before the crowd dispersed into the normal Saturday nightlife.

August 25: Protests and music

On Sunday, MOBE had scheduled a 'Meet the Delegates' march and picket. At 2 p.m. there were between 200 and 300 picketers marching across the street from the Conrad Hilton, and another 500 marching south through the Loop chanting, "Hey, Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today". After the police arrival, those who were picketing moved into nearby Grant Park to avoid a mass arrest situation. Once the marchers had reached Grant Park, there was a brief rally where Davis and Hayden claimed the day a success, and then went to Lincoln Park where the Festival of Life music festival was beginning.

At 4 pm, the Festival started with proto-punk band MC5, the only band who showed up for the festival. The police did not allow a flatbed truck to be brought in as a stage, fearing Yippies would use it to incite the crowd. When the concession stand owner insisted that Yippie stop using his electrical outlets to run the amplification equipment, confusion ensued. While Rubin and other Yippies tried to make frantic deals to get the sound back on, Hoffman used the confusion to try to bring in the flatbed truck. A deal was struck allowing the truck to be parked nearby, but not in, the park. The crowd that had gathered around and on the truck did not realize an agreement had been reached and thought the truck was being sent away. The crowd surged around the truck, pinning in the police officers.

Hoffman declared that the police had stopped the music festival, and proceeded to conduct a workshop on dispersal tactics to avoid arrest by police. As the next police shift came on duty, they were informed of the tense situation in the park. Due to the number, frequency, diverseness, and exposure of the threats made by the protesters, the police were concerned about facing protesters armed with unknown weapons and unknown intentions.

At 9 pm, police formed a skirmish line around the park bathrooms. This drew a crowd of spectators who heckled the police. The crowd rapidly grew until the police charged into the crowd swinging their batons, scattering the crowd. At 11 pm the police pushed the protesters out of the park. Most protesters left the park and congregated nearby, taunting the police.

Initially when the police reached the edge of the park, they maintained their skirmish line, however when a squad was ordered to 'clear' Clark Street to keep traffic flowing the police lost control. A running battle began. Yippie Jerry Rubin told a friend "This is fantastic and it's only Sunday night. They might declare martial law in this town." Protesters, journalists, photographers, and bystanders were clubbed and beaten by the police.  Order was not restored in Old Town until early Monday morning.

August 26: Grant Park

On Monday, August 26, demonstrators climbed on a statue of General Logan on a horse, leading to violent skirmishes with police in Grant Park. Police hauled a young man down and arrested him, breaking his arm in the process.

August 28: The Battle for Michigan Avenue
Protestors were joined on 28 August by the Poor People's Campaign, now led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Ralph Abernathy. This group had a permit and was split off from other demonstrators before being allowed to proceed to the amphitheater.

"The Battle of Michigan Avenue", described by Neil Steinberg of The Chicago Sun-Times as "a 17-minute melee in front of the Conrad Hilton", was broadcast on television, along with footage from the floor of the convention. The police violence extended to protesters, bystanders, reporters and photographers, while tear gas reached Hubert Humphrey in his hotel suite. Police pushed protesters through plate-glass windows, then pursued them inside and beat them as they sprawled on the broken glass. 100 protesters and 119 police officers were treated for injuries, and 600 protesters were arrested. Television cameras recorded the police brutality while demonstrators chanted "The whole world is watching".

At the convention several delegates made statements against Mayor Daley and the CPD, like Senator Abraham Ribicoff who, speaking from the podium, denounced the use of "Gestapo tactics on the streets of Chicago" in his speech nominating George McGovern. The hard line taken by the City was also seen on the convention floor itself. In 1968, Terry Southern described the convention hall as "exactly like approaching a military installation; barbed-wire, checkpoints, the whole bit". Inside the convention, journalists such as Mike Wallace and Dan Rather were roughed up by security; both these events were broadcast live on television.

Humphrey won the presidential nomination that night.

August 29: Ain't Marchin' Any More

 Paul Cowan of The Village Voice reports that after a speech by Eugene McCarthy in Grant Park that afternoon, a march was joined by delegates and McCarthy supporters but was stopped at 18th Street and Michigan Avenue by the National Guard. Arrests were followed by tear gas and mace, while marchers chanted "The whole world is watching" and retreated to Grant Park. In the park, demonstrators sang "God Bless America",  "This Land Is My Land", and  "The Star Spangled Banner", and waved  "V" symbols above their heads, asking soldiers to join in. They never did. Phil Ochs sang  "I Ain't Marchin' Any More", and demonstrators chanted "join us" softly. Five hours later, police officers raided a party organized by McCarthy workers in the Hilton hotel, and beat them viciously. According to the McCarthy workers, all telephones on their floor had been disconnected a half hour before, and they had no way to call for help.

Investigations

The city of Chicago, the  U.S. Department of Justice, the  House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the presidentially appointed  National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence all responded with investigations of the violence. Within days, the Daley administration issued the first report, blaming the violence on "outside agitators", described as "revolutionaries" who came to Chicago "for the avowed purpose of a hostile confrontation with law enforcement". The Department of Justice report, however, found no grounds for prosecution of demonstrators, and Attorney General Ramsey Clark asked the U.S. attorney in Chicago to investigate possible civil rights violations by Chicago police.

In Mayor Daley's report, a list of 152 officers wounded in Wednesday's melee was presented. Their wounds ranged from an officer's split fingernail to an officer's infra-orbital fracture of the left eye. Although the precise number of injured protesters is unknown, Dr. Quentin Young of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) stated that most of the approximately 500 people treated in the streets suffered from minor injuries and the effects of tear gas. During the entirety of convention week, 101 civilians were treated for undisclosed injuries, by area hospitals, 45 of those on Wednesday night.

On September 4, 1968,  Milton Eisenhower, chair of the  National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, announced that the commission would investigate the violence at the Chicago convention and report its findings to President Lyndon Johnson. A Chicago lawyer,  Daniel Walker, headed the team of over 200 members, who interviewed more than 1,400 witnesses and studied FBI reports and film of the confrontations. The report was released on December 1, 1968, characterized the convention violence as a "police riot" and recommended prosecution of police who used indiscriminate violence; the report made clear that the vast majority of police had behaved responsibly, but also said that a failure to prosecute would further damage public confidence in law enforcement. The commission's Walker Report, named after its chair Daniel Walker, acknowledged that demonstrators had provoked the police and responded with violence of their own, but found that the "vast majority of the demonstrators were intent on expressing by peaceful means their dissent".

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See also
 "The whole world is watching"
 Medium Cool, a 1969 fictional movie using real footage of the Chicago Convention demonstrations as backdrop
 Protests of 1968
 List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
 Songs of Innocence and Experience, a 1970 album recorded by Allen Ginsberg, inspired in part by his witness of the protest
 Chicago Seven

References

Further reading
 Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. Norman Mailer, New York: New American Library, 1968.

External links

An excerpt from Chicago '68 by David Farber.
An excerpt from No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968 by John Schultz.
An excerpt from Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention by Frank Kusch.
Art and Social Issues Offers a description of Bernard Perlin's Mayor Daley which depicts protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
 August 27, 1968 recording of speeches and interviews broadcast by Bob Fass on WBAI, now hosted at the Internet Archive

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Hierarchical metapopulation structure in the southern Australia coastal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops cf. australis) (525)
Eleanor AL Pratt 1 2 , Luciano B Beheregaray 2 , Kerstin Bilgmann 3 , Nikki Zanardo 1 2 , Fernando Diaz-Aguirre 1 2 , Luciana M Moller 1 2
Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Little is known about the population ecology of the recently described bottlenose dolphin species Tursiops australis. The species is thought to be comprised of small and genetically distinct populations (including sub-populations under increasing anthropogenic threats) and is likely endemic to coastal southern Australia. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region sequences and microsatellite loci were used to assess genetic variation and hierarchical population structure of coastal T. cf. australis across a range of spatial scales and environmental discontinuities between southern Western Australia (WA) and central South Australia (SA). Overall, genetic diversity was similar to that typically found for bottlenose dolphins, although very low mtDNA diversity was found in Gulf St. Vincent (GSV) dolphins. We found historical genetic subdivision and likely differences in colonisation between GSV and Spencer Gulf, outer- and inner-gulf locations, and SA/WA and previously identified Victorian/Tasmanian populations. A hierarchical metapopulation structure was revealed along southern Australia, with at least six genetic populations occurring between Esperance, WA and southern Tasmania. In addition, fine-scale genetic subdivision was observed within each SA/WA population. In general, contemporary migration was limited throughout southern Australia, but an important gene flow pathway was identified eastward along the Great Australian Bight. Management strategies that promote gene flow among populations should be implemented to assist with the maintenance of the inferred metapopulation structure. Further research into the population ecology of this species is needed to facilitate well-informed management decisions.


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Tal-y-Cafn (Welsh meaning : "place opposite the ferry-boat")  is a small settlement in Conwy county borough, north Wales, in the community of Eglwysbach.

It lies in the Conwy valley close to the Roman settlement of Canovium at Caerhun, and was the site of a Roman river-crossing point of the River Conwy.  A medieval ferry, which operated from as early as 1301, was replaced by a steel bridge of rivetted plates and angles on piers of concrete and masonry in 1897. Originally a toll bridge, it is now toll free, and is the only road bridge over the river between Conwy and Llanrwst.

The present bridge dates from 1977-8 following severe rusting of the original structure. The chosen design by A. M. Hamilton is of interest, being a Callender-Hamilton type B10 bridge of unit construction and intended for rapid deployment in civilian and military applications. The pre-fabricated steel sections are hot-dip galvanised for protection against corrosion, and no part is too heavy for two men to carry. The piers of the old bridge were in perfect condition, and it was a stipulation that the footway be available for use at all times during reconstruction. It was therefore decided to adopt an unusual installation method, whereby the new bridge was assembled through and around the old bridge. Once completed, the new bridge was lowered onto the piers by cutting away piece-by-piece the old bridge.

The bridge also carries water in a pipe from Llyn Dulyn and Llyn Melynllyn in the Carneddau mountains to the coastal town of Llandudno.

Tal-y-Cafn is primarily known as the site of the Tal-y-Cafn Hotel, a former coaching inn located on the A470 road, and the adjacent Tal-y-Cafn railway station. A livestock market was situated to the south of the railway level-crossing where there was previously a goods siding and loading dock. Following the livestock movement restrictions brought about by the Foot-and-mouth Disease outbreak of 2001, the market did not re-open. The site is now occupied by a housing development. The shop and post office are also now closed, and demolished. The hotel, which closed in 2010, has been significantly rebuilt and re-opened under the name Tal y Cafn in the summer of 2016.

Nearby lies Bodnant Garden, a National Trust property set in .

A modern housing estate development on the western bank of the river was the location of The Ferry, a former public house. This pub, popular at a time when alcohol could be served on a Sunday (which was not legal across the river), suffered when the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act 1881 was repealed.

References

External links

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Conwy Valley Railway
Callender-Hamilton lattice girder bridges
www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Tal-y-Cafn and surrounding area

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Villages in Conwy County Borough


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Six Flags (SIX)
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Amusement parks are viewed as a luxury at the best of times. Riding a rollercoaster, while fun, is hardly necessary. For this reason, the stock of Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:SIX) is likely not one you want in your portfolio if the economy tanks. The Texas-based company runs nearly 30 amusement and water parks in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The company's business has struggled since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 forced its parks to close for lengthy periods or operate at reduced capacity. A recession in 2023 would just be the latest blow to a stock that has declined 60% in the last five years.
In the past year alone, SIX stock has dropped 32%. To keep up with inflation, the company was forced to raise its prices in 2022. That resulted in a 25% year-over-year decline in park attendance during the first nine months of last year.
Its total revenue dropped 9% and its net income fell 23% in the same time period. A recession would further hurt park attendance and profits, making Six Flags Entertainment a stock to sell ASAP.
Darden Restaurants (DRI)
People will still dine out during a recession, but they'll look for cheaper alternatives. The dollar menu at McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) can become very popular when times are tough. That would be bad news for Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI), which runs popular dine-in chains such as Olive Garden and the Longhorn Steakhouse. These full-service restaurants have difficulty competing against their fast food competitors and drive-thru counters during lean times.
A recession in 2023 would come at arguably the worst possible time for Darden Restaurants, whose more than 1,800 locations across the U.S. and Canada are still recovering from the pandemic.
Over the past 12 months, DRI stock has risen 8% after struggling mightily during 2020 and 2021 when its restaurants were largely closed. In the company's fiscal second quarter which ended in November, its total sales increased 9.4% versus the same period a year earlier to $2.5 billion i. A recession this year would be a gut punch to the company and its shareholders.
Mastercard (MA)
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Credit card giant Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is typically a great stock to own. The New York-based company's share price has gained 120% over the last five years and it has risen 9% in the last 12 months .
However, during an economic recession, Mastercard and other major credit card issuers are likely to take it on the chin. That is because their top and bottom lines will plunge as consumers stop using credit cards for discretionary spending such as booking hotels and paying for air fares, entertainment and dining out. And consumers are less likely to use their credit cards to pay for essential items such as their mortgage and home-heating bills.
Mastercard, whose network encompasses more than 3 billion credit cards issued worldwide, performed very well over the last year as the global economy emerged from the pandemic. Specifically, the company's net revenue rose 20% and its net income grew 17% during the first nine months of 2022, compared with the same period a year earlier.
And Mastercard's operating margin of 55% remains exceptionally strong. However, the company struggled during the early months of the pandemic when its share price fell nearly 40%. It could have problems again if we enter a recession that is deeper and more prolonged than expected.
That makes Mastercard a stock to sell ASAP following the World Economic Forum's recession prediction for 2023.
On the date of publication, Joel Baglole did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
Joel Baglole has been a business journalist for 20 years. He spent five years as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has also written for The Washington Post and Toronto Star newspapers, as well as financial websites such as The Motley Fool and Investopedia.
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In case you missed last Wednesday's Panel Debate at Quad, hosted by JAYE Alumni Malta in collaboration with ASCS, UESA, ICTSA and GħSL, here are the nine most important things we took home with us from our four inspirational speakers.
You take passion in talking about what you do and love taking on new opportunities, but at the back of your mind, you know your head is exploding with work. Sounds familiar?
Sometimes, the most difficult thing in entrepreneurship and in life, in general, is saying no. Do not be afraid of refusing offers, especially those tasks that could quite possibly compromise your mission.
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The more you work, the quicker you can make all ends meet, but there's a fine line between working to make ends meet, and becoming a workaholic. Does this line exist in entrepreneurship?
Realistically, if you do not have a love affair with your business then what are you doing there? You must be passionate at work and believe in your idea, but also leave some personal time for yourself. As a person with a start-up, you might end up just scraping by at first and so working more might seem like the ultimate option. However, you need to learn how to balance your time and work efficiently.
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CLS Group (CLS), the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just announced that it has hired Margaret Law as Head of Client Management APAC.
Margaret Law will be based in Hong Kong and will report to Joe Ziccarelli, Global Head of Sales. She will be responsible for continuing to grow the client base across the region, as well as the adoption of CLS's broader portfolio of products and services focusing on three business lines – settlement, processing, and data.
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Police Controlling Your Autonomous Car Could Add Security Risks, Experts Say
Hackers might be able to seize your ride
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Police were recently spotted pulling over an autonomous Cruise taxi because it allegedly didn't have its headlights on.
Cruise is testing computer vision and sound detection AI to help its cars respond to emergency vehicles.
Security experts say hackers could take advantage of mechanisms that police use to control autonomous cars.
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Self-driving cars that police can remotely control in emergencies could create security risks, experts say.
In a recent incident posted on Instagram, police were spotted pulling over an autonomous Cruise taxi because it allegedly didn't have its headlights on. The video shows the Cruise car coming to a stop, though it's unclear if any automated systems were activated. Observers say the incident shows that policies governing police interactions will have to be established as autonomous vehicles become more common.
"Not only should law enforcement not have remote control [capabilities] because [it] will ultimately fall into the wrong hands, but technology that allows remote control should not be installed on production automobiles even if it is a disabled feature," Brian Contos, the chief security officer of Phosphorus Cybersecurity, told Lifewire in an email interview.
"Just having these technical capabilities, even if not activated, could lend themself to future exploitation by a nefarious actor such as redirecting the vehicle to a different destination, causing the vehicle to operate unsafely, or disabling door locks."
Self-Policing?
In the video, a Cruise car pulled over to the side of the road when signaled by an officer ahead of an intersection. The officer tries to open the driver-side door, but the Cruise vehicle begins to drive down the road before stopping a second time.
Cruise wrote on Twitter about the incident, saying, "our AV yielded to the police vehicle, then pulled over to the nearest safe location for the traffic stop, as intended. An officer contacted Cruise personnel, and no citation was issued."
But in the future, Contos suggested autonomous car makers could be forced by law enforcement to install ways for police to control their cars. He cited the case in which the FBI tried to get backdoor access to the iPhone to bypass Apple's robust encryption but noted the problem with this approach is that a backdoor cannot be limited to just one entity, such as law enforcement.
"It's basically a vulnerability which you are deliberately adding into your code," Contos said. "So once you build that backdoor into your software, you have created a big gaping hole in your security that other actors could potentially exploit. A backdoor is a backdoor, period. The same is true with a car, it's just a much bigger system."
Contos speculated that attackers could trigger vehicle malfunctions on the road, which could lead to vehicles being held hostage until the owner or manufacturer paid a ransom.
Unfortunately, you might not have a legal leg to stand on if the police want to control your autonomous car, civil rights attorney Christopher Collins told Lifewire via email.
"From a legal standpoint, police already have the right to pull over vehicles under a very low standard called reasonable suspicion," Collins explained. "They can almost always point to some objective criteria to justify why they suspected this particular vehicle needed to be stopped."
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The FBI is already looking into how autonomous cars will affect policing. The bureau wrote on its website that police admins need to plan for the increasing number of robot cars that will impact their work.
"In the transition from human-operated to driverless vehicles, [autonomous vehicles] most likely will be programmed to obey traffic laws and control devices, such as stoplights," the FBI writes. "It also appears probable that [level] 4 and 5 [self-driving] systems will adhere to those constraints more precisely than human operators, lessening the priority of traffic enforcement within a law enforcement agency."
Just having these technical capabilities, even if not activated, could lend themself to future exploitation...
But Contos said that in the case of autonomous vehicles such as a street sweeper, waste disposal truck, or similar vehicle owned by a city government that doesn't have passengers, police should have remote control capability. "That use case makes perfect sense," he added.
Contos also proposed that if an autonomous vehicle is out of control, police could use the same analog measures they use today, such as flattening the tires with spike strips or trapping the autonomous automobile with police cars.
"If a passenger is suffering a medical emergency, they can pull the car over, and if the doors are locked, gain access to the passenger with a Slim Jim or break the window," Contos said.
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