Terrifying Robot Update: Monday, August 25, 2014
...on its head and asks, 'Can robots trust humans?'" Zeller told AFP in late July when HitchBot's trip began." (via) That's right, that motherfucker from last time made it all...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 20
...to presume that just his presence is charity and that his very corporeal existence is the highest form of benevolence he can bestow on his fellow humans? That being said,...
Dragged Down by the Stone
...symbology no longer safely contained by the product it was meant to promote, throwing complacent passengers suddenly into a panicked reckoning of their passivity. Arguably, this is a more powerful...
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...terms,” she said, “all the world around us is energy. Witchcraft and prayer writing and talismans are all energies. Even the body consists of compressed energy.” The energies that humans...
No Spin Zone
...an astronomer could love). They are Earth-size planets orbiting their suns at roughly the same distance as the Earth. Their discoveries answer ancient questions. For thousands of years, humans have...
Death Dreams
...“it has been surprising to note the meekness, resignation, perhaps even secret relief with which humans have consented to their own passing.” But even representing humanity as eager for extinction...
Predictive analytics and information camouflage
...are “vulnerable to intervention by marketers.” In other words, a precisely timed advertisement, sent to a recent divorcee or new homebuyer, can change someone’s shopping patterns for years. Apparently humans'...
Islamic Astropolitik
...have desacralized, diminishing its mystique and divinity, and turned worlds beyond earth the domain of humans rather than the gods. And in the current age of information and surveillance, accumulation...
Cloudy Logic
...ends, from marriage, to crime, to expenditures on children, can be understood ‘economically’ according to a particular calculation of cost for benefit.” Humans are beings who make choices, and every...
Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law
...such an immense, unreasonable scale was not lost from Speer. Dwarfed by such large buildings, humans themselves became insignificant. In the capacious People’s Hall, designed to fit mass demonstrations of...
Service
...from poverty.” While some humans are analogized to animals, some animals have an increasingly close relationship to their companions. In “Service-Animal Liberation,” frequent New Inquiry contributor Carmen Petaccio wonders where...
Sunday Reading
...somewhere more authentically artificial. "There's a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley" "Drones date online, but drones don’t think about it the way that humans...
Black Sun Rising
...outpost built in the cold darkness of space. Through cult ritual, black suns, or wormholes these fascists expect to find shortcuts around the chaos of humans acting freely together. But...
The Scapegoating Machine
...the Other.” That is, humans desire things not out of any intrinsic or autonomous volition, but because others desire those things, and we unconsciously mimic them. By having or seeming...
The true dimensions of the problem
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Able to be turned on, and that is it
...assemble can be turned on at best." In the body of the statement, it reads: “Foxconn doesn't treat us as humans. So we don't treat their products as high quality...