Racism, Humanism, and Speciesism: The Irony of the Censored “Huck Finn”
For reasons unrelated to the recent controversy surrounding the book, I’ve recently been rereading Adventures of...
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Watson reax from an AI researcher, Ken Jennings, and others
I’d like to point our readers to a couple articles of note about IBM’s Watson and its Jeopardy! win. First,...
Watson, Can You Hear Me? (The Significance of the “Jeopardy” AI win)
Yesterday, on Jeopardy!, a computer handily beat its human competitors. Stephen Gordon asks, “Did the Singularity...
Are humanists the new racists?
Our last post, simply a picture of a joyous Audrey Hepburn leaping in the air with the title “Does Anybody Seriously...
The Significance of Man
Over at Gizmodo, Jesus Diaz has called attention to a genuinely lovely animation of Earth’s weather from August...
