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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Tönnies-y read on Seinfeld/Curb = the semi-public is a set of comically arbitrary norms that allow for society but dissolve community.
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see Ohler (2016)
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That's also the name of the feature Musk is promising Tesla robots will have by 2028.
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I do like the idea of non-monotonic heat maps to turn my uncertainty into Tufte level sophistication. Slop and protein-folds share a world.
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MJ Slenderman
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Percival Everett would find satirical ways to send up data servers using water as precious commodity, including attributing fake novels to the narrator-- tokens of irony...
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If I were a Spartan intelligence agent I would teach youth new gods and show impiety toward the Athenian pantheon.
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My very dear Wife:
Indications are very strong that our justified true beliefs will move toward Ft. Gettier in a few days-- perhaps tomorrow...
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Straining the bounds of seriousness
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Amazing, thank you. It was a leap beyond the Jabbar/Worthy goggles of the early/mid 80's.
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Since this has prompted a few references to the split-flap, here are my talk and article about that most charismatic and functional of technologies :)
wordsinspace.net/2020/12/03/f...
wordsinspace.net/fluttering-c...
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Oh yeah that’s a good one (reminds me to check back in with western esotericism podcast). Now I’m thinking who other than Heraclitus is philosophy’s dril.
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Gorgias, Malebranche, in terms of form Aquinas, have to think more… : )
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Their praxis www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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“a” : ) Thank you for the polar reading list, daunting but inspiring (and keep going!)
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She did recently run for governor of MA, so there may be longer term goals/audiences.
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“They say ‘We get them from Harrod’s,’ and they blink.”
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The work at CSLI from early-to-mid 80's is quite prophetic toward LLM's.
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This is the bind, it is hard to sustain interest in invisible useful things. Part of why I take AGI to be a failure of imagination and awareness, not their horizon.
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It really is, I feel like ED Hirsch “Kids you must know this.”
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The owl of critical theory flies in a David Brooks column.
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Pym bro culture
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The eugenics-washing of unmodified “birth rate” and “baby”
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The next 5% will be crucial.
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This is more the quotidian materialism I want from Black Mirror S8
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That picture is so grue
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Slept in my De La Soul tee shirt, now I need a haircut
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Such bitter irony of him joking to the military person about “target-rich environments,” looking past massive military inefficiencies to snipe safety expertise.
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GOFAI-syndicalist resistance
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Without seeing pic I assumed this referred to X the universal app.