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thomasarnold.bsky.social
HRI, AI, religious studies, pragmatism, ethics, computational bypass | Researching and teaching ethics at Tufts CS/Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory | He/him | Blackwing #: 602 | Realism: visceral
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April is a real bummer of a month

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New England and Boston writers-friends: Join us at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Concord, MA at the Concord Free Public Library for a writing event featuring the wonderful @cindyhouse.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social & Alysia Abbott. Come say hi! Come write! (& pass the word along!)

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April is a real bummer of a month

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Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died.

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Folk might want to read my @dallasnews.com op-ed related to Hegseth & Wilson: www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Really looking forward to this book.

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In the midst of Boston spring I found there was, within me, still another Boston spring.

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In philosophy you can just make up an argument to get mad at, you don’t even need to make up a person convinced by it.

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Soft undercaffeinated animal just try to get one wild and precious cup

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The Life of Tau

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This @moiraweigel.bsky.social essay shows Karp's dissociated froideur toward the effects of aggression, resembling not so much the Thiel of The Diversity Myth as the latter's answer to why one shouldn't assassinate CEO's-- "you have to make the argument." www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

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"Do we know what causes preeclampsia? Why do they call it an 'incompetent cervix?' Why is natality scarier than mortality? Why is text so awesome compared to organisms?"

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your last day to download @andytobo.bsky.social's element "Israel and Its Heirs in Late Antiquity"! You don't even need to read it today, just download that PDF and save it for a special treat! @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Another reason this is the best $3 of subscription money I spend each month.

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Outputting “outside chatGPT,” i.e. LLM’s essentially deceptive indexical #philsky xcancel.com/transluceai/...

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When you read this alongside Ruha Benjamin’s “Imagination Manifesto,” it is clear how AI is also, for these folks, a desecration and extermination of any prospect of human intelligence that disturbs or scares them. So rhetorically it can weaponize secularity as well.

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Join in for the last few hours if you have time, excellent conversations. #AIEthics

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Digitality is pure sequence of signs: when its control is extended to everything we no longer know what earth supports us... We continue experiencing the analog pole, we no longer know what to call it: it is mute emotion that overwhelms us... Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, p.21.

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