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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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A dilemma so stunted and necrophilic it makes the trolley problem look like an excerpt from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks.

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Joaquin Phoenix could do young and old William James, portray credible nitrous oxide hits and spirit readings, and nail "Damn the absolute!" in a #PhilosophyBiopics

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Safety net hospitals would be what a functioning media class would cover right now, e.g. can they even make payroll without federal grants. Nurses, custodians, security guards, patients— front lines, what does it look like?

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Borgesian priors

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Tried to make a joke about Hector but got savagely dragged.

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Finally found my banner

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A propos of "focus," one of the most helpful "Internet savvy a century before the Internet" pieces. condor.depaul.edu/dweinste/the...

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post an Archer

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An important second-order AI bitter lesson is that there are many of them.

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Toward More Ambitious Article Titles: A Sketch

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Whether one’s deity could ever truly suffer toasting is a controversial topic in patriscuit thought. The wink here suggests gnomsticism.

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Whether one’s deity could ever truly suffer toasting is a controversial topic in patriscuit thought. The wink here suggests gnomsticism.

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Pssst. I have a code for you. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An... #AI #ethics #design #robots #UX #scifi #religion

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Read @jomc.bsky.social’s compelling novel “Wrong Way” for more of these self-driving perks.

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Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_. You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers. muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

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Time for my slow morning walk into the sea

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Parsing an ed tech attempt to AI this course would be an instructive course on its own. www.thedp.com/article/2017...

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Incoming self-promo: It's Routledge's last days of 25% off all books and ebooks, including my own new title, "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze." #ai #robots #ux #tech #science #interviews 🤖🧪📚 www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

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There are parallel questions to be asked across other fields, e.g. how much HCI/HRI literature should a computer scientist need to know to be considered a competent instructor in CS?

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Ex opere operato about to be taken for another theological spin

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Wittgenstein: You can already hear the machines in Brahms… DeepMind, with SEP entry on Wittgenstein open in a tab: Not enough machines in Brahms, we hear you, we’re on it.

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