Late last month, I was at Theorizing the Web, in NYC, to moderate Panel B3, “Bot Phenomenology,” in which I was very grateful to moderate a panel of people I was very lucky to be able to bring together. Johnathan Flowers, Emma Stamm, and Robin Zebrowski were my interlocutors in a discussion about the potential […]
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https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AFWTA-8ScienceEthicsEpistemologySociety.mp3 [Direct Link to Mp3] Above is the (heavily edited) audio of my final talk for the SRI Technology and Consciousness Workshop Series. The names and voices of other participants have been removed in accordance with the Chatham House Rule. Below you’ll find the slide deck for my presentation, and below the cut you’ll find […]
This summer I participated in SRI International’s Technology and Consciousness Workshop Series. The meetings were held under the auspices of the Chatham House Rule, which means that there are many things I can’t tell you about them, such as who else was there, or what they said in the context of the meetings; however I […]
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/7224113132387652353.mp3 [Direct link to Mp3] [09/22/17: This post has been updated with a transcript, courtesy of Open Transcripts] Back on March 13th, 2017, I gave an invited guest lecture, titled: TECHNOLOGY, DISABILITY, AND HUMAN AUGMENTATION ‘Please join Dr. Ariel Eisenberg’s seminar, “American Identities: Disability,” and [the] Interdisciplinary Studies Department for an hour-long conversation with Damien […]
There’s increasing reportage about IBM using Watson to correlate medical data. We’ve talked before about the potential hazards of this: Do you know someone actually had the temerity to ask [something like] “What Does Google Having Access to Medical Records Mean For Patient Privacy?” [Here] Like…what the fuck do you think it means? Nothing good, […]
[Originally Published at Eris Magazine] So Gabriel Roberts asked me to write something about police brutality, and I told him I needed a few days to get my head in order. The problem being that, with this particular topic, the longer I wait on this, the longer I want to wait on this, until, eventually, […]
[UPDATED 09/12/17: The transcript of this audio, provided courtesy of Open Transcripts, is now available below the Read More Cut.] [UPDATED 03/28/16: Post has been updated with a far higher quality of audio, thanks to the work of Chris Novus. (Direct Link to the Mp3)] So, if you follow the newsletter, then you know that […]
This work originally appears as “Go Upgrade Yourself,” in the edited volume Futurama and Philosophy. It was originally titled The Upgrading of Hermes Conrad So, you’re tired of your squishy meatsack of a body, eh? Ready for the next level of sweet biomechanical upgrades? Well, you’re in luck! The world of Futurama has the finest […]
I often think about the phrase “Strange things happen at the one two point,” in relation to the idea of humans meeting other kinds of minds. It’s a proverb that arises out of the culture around the game GO, and it means that you’ve hit a situation, a combination of factors, where the normal rules […]