Climate Change Activism
Some thoughts on Fridays4Future, Students4Future, and Scientist4Future -- and strikes at schools and universities.
Image: Pale Blue Dot.
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Image: Pale Blue Dot.
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Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet Passport (PDF)
Seems like I forgot to upload the passport-like character sheet I did create a while ago for a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game session. Well, here it is.
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Why not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog?
Who is responsible if you have an AI system (e.g., a robot) that learns after you buy it -- when it does something wrong. Perhaps treating such a system like you would treat a dog would be a way to deal with it.
Image: «Supergirl»
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Image: «Supergirl»
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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)
Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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Weight Hacking Part IV – The Long View
Losing weight is simple, keeping it off is hard. Funny thing, with tracking, you'll see phases, trends and where you'd end up when.
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Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations
We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.
Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.
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Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.
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How about a few mirror neurons for AIs/neural networks?
AIs could be psychopaths — capable of understanding emotions but not being affected by it. Or they could be condemned to feel.
Image: "Detroit -- Become Human" walkthrough.
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Image: "Detroit -- Become Human" walkthrough.
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Idealistic Youth and (Social) Power
A short passage from a graphic novel struck a chord — there is a danger when idealistic youth get power beyond their years.
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Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism
A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.
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The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.
What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?
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