Rebel Motivations and Repression

Cognitive Support for Rebel Agents

Rebel agents are intelligent agents that can oppose goals or plans assigned to them, or the general attitudes and/or behavior of other agents. They can serve purposes such as ethics, safety, and task execution correctness; enhance social co-creativity, and provide or support diverse points of view. We previously proposed a framework for AI rebellion and explored various scenarios that have posi...

Accountability and Responsiveness in Rebel Regimes

Financial Repression, Economic Growth and Development

Economic growth and development of market, stock exchange and related variables are among components which influence on business, economic activities and management of society. Financial repression is among economic variables greatly influencing on financial market specifically capital market and economic growth and development; so that, this concept caused to publish financial growth and devel...

REBEL - Reconfigurable Block Encryption Logic

Existing block cipher function designs have tended to deploy the secret bits in a specific and limited way. We generalize the role of the secret as truth tables of Boolean gates in a carefully designed logic schema. Our claims are: these reconfigurable functions are pseudo one-way and pseudo random functions. Such a function family is proposed using reconfigurable gates. Based on this function ...

Lee Hartwell: rebel with a cause

Lee Hartwell is the new director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (‘the Hutch’) in Seattle, Washington. It’s hard to believe that this adroit and softspoken man was once a “tearaway” — cruising the streets of 1950s Los Angeles with his high school gang, and sporting a black wool jacket with a dragon emblem. Though there’s still something of the maverick in him, he grew tired of the...