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Chinese Room LLM // 257 (preview)
This week we evaluate a paper written by a Google DeepMind engineer which, in effect updates the Chinese Room Thought Experiment (Searle, 1980) to mo…
4 months ago
AI Will Fail Because Heidegger // 256
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Hubert Dreyfus loved recounting how he was maligned for his AI skepticism, whi…
4 months ago
POPE vs. AI // 255
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While many had hoped for a Butlerian Crusade against the thinking machines, the Pope …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Michel Foucault: Technologies of the Self // 254
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People have not always had a self, our selves were invented. According to Foucault, …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Christopher Lasch: The Culture of Narcissism // 253 (preview)
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After three episodes reading Culture of Narcissism we conclude that despite a unique per…
5 months ago
Internet Connection UTTERLY DESTROYS Lost Exotic Rainforest Tribe!!! // 251
jk it's just fake news that duped conservatives yet again. This viral lie claimed that a remote Amazon tribe fell apart the instant they discovered i…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing // 249
This week we inspect the latest form of anthropotechnics, its surrounding moral panic, and American Psycho comparisons (Baudrillard was right about e…
6 months ago
Anthropotechnics // 248 (preview)
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6 months ago
Sloterdijk on Trial for Eugenics // 247
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This week we read Sloterdijk's 1999 "Rules for the Human Zoo" (https://web.stanford.…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Marcel Mauss - The Gift // 180 (unlock)
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We read the eminent The Gift (https://amzn.to/3NAenx3) by Marcel Mauss which is i…
6 months, 3 weeks ago