Status Quo

The existing state of affairs with its known degrees of freedoms, and sanctions (i.e. affordances).¹

Table of Contents

• 1. Vedh, Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhedh

• 1.1 Bhedh

• 1.2 Vedh

• 1.2.1 Fallibility

• 1.2.2 Falsifiability

• 1.2.3 Trust and Reliance

• 1.2.4 Empathy, Sympathy, and Solidarity

• 1.2.4.1 Dishonesty and Cheating within Brain Imaging Studies

• 1.2.5 Friend versus Foe

• 1.2.5.1 Obligation versus Courtesy

• 1.2.6 Most Fundamental of All Conceptions

• 1.2.6.1 The power of information, and effective knowledge

• 1.2.6.2 The most excellent persona's marvelous world

• 1.2.6.3 The biggest of big guns

• 1.2.7 Zero-day Faults

• 1.2.7.1 Ontological Methods in Systems Engineering

• 1.2.7.2 Doctrines are Unquestionable, Question Mark

• 1.2.7.3 Significant Topics for Serious Consideration, when Building and Deploying a Military AI

• 1.2.7.4 Gain-of-Function

• 1.2.8 Zero-Trust Security Systems Architecture

• 1.2.9 Automated Discovery and Exploitation of Zero-day Faults

• 1.3 Daam

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Footnotes

1. The word, affordance, is a synonym of the word, sanction. Depending on the context, "sanction" can have either of the following meanings:

   • "to give approbations and approvals for something, or to someone", or,

   • "to give proscriptions and censures for something, or to someone."

   Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance#Mechanisms_and_conditions_framework_of_affordances ↩