Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 12
It’s a philosophical position to assume that a story’s goal should be to portray events as realisticThe fact is genres carry a philosophical worldview; they can’t help it
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AI Psychosis and the Need for Human Exceptionalism
I pronounce you husband and chatbot?AI is a tool with certain potentials and limits across various fields, but basic anthropological confusion can do a lot of damage. What happens when AI programs cease to be seen as mere tools, meant to used in limited ways and used wisely, and are considered “persons?” It sounds silly to pose the question, but that’s where we are. Futurism writer Frank Landymore reports on an Ohio legislative measure to ban human-AI marital unions. The bill must be intended to be preventative, since AI bots and programs aren’t recognized as legal persons (yet), but it speaks to a cultural trend that, if undealt with, could blow out of proportion. Landymore writes, Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly Read More ›
John Stuart Mill: Humans Are Not Automatons
Making rational decisions takes a lot of thought and hard work, says Mill.Mill uses a beautiful contrast in metaphor to show how human nature is qualitatively different from machines.
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AI Is Going to Do the Dating for You
Making dating "easier" with AI might actually end up making it a lot harder.Could AI explicate aspects of my personality, package it, and sell it to the other representative bots in the dating pool? Sure, but where is the humanity?
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How I Turned My Smartphone Into a “Dumbphone”
I've had it being a pawn of Big TechAt the end of the day, I had to examine the real reasons I had an iPhone, and realized most of them were connected to distraction and entertainment.
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Smartphone 10 Conversation 0
We need to be more honest about the addictive nature of the device, for some.A guy on a date is not checking his phone three times in ten minutes because the world outside the restaurant is changing that fast. He is in the grip of an addiction.
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