18 October 2016
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Eliezer Yudkowsky (Singularity Institute, Less Wrong) and Jaron Lanier (You Are Not a Gadget, jaronlanier.com)
- Are people machines? Can machines be people? . 7:58
- The point of trying to explain consciousness . 7:00
- Is there anything but quarks? . 6:48
- Jaron attacks the modern IQ test . 3:46
- Eliezer defends the “ideology” of AI research . 8:31
- Microsoft’s Clippy as pure expression of AI culture . 6:09
Science Saturday | Nov 1, 2008 | Eliezer Yudkowsky & Jaron Lanier
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Parenting artificial intelligence
Kevin Kelly, author of The Inevitable, argues that articulating our ethics is more challenging than embedding them in AI.
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Trump’s military fixation
Political scientist Steven Teles dissects Trump’s vision of a larger yet less engaged military. Plus: Republicans without a party.
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Sin as a stain
Ben Perry and Joseph Lam on the staying power of biblical metaphors. Plus: How metaphors shape discourse on slavery and sex.
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The loopholes Trump loves
Richard Vague, author of The Next Economic Disaster, on how the real estate business runs on debt and financial creativity.
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Can a “not-self” be guilty as charged?
Robert Wright and Jonathan Gold, author of Paving the Great Way, discuss whether the Buddhist view of causality leaves space for moral agency. Plus: How real is real?
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Is fighting implicit bias possible?
Glenn Loury and Mark Kleiman on what police reform should look like. Plus: What Trump gets wrong about stop-and-frisk.
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Why are millennials so idealistic?
Baby boomer Robert Wright and Dan Kaufman of Gen X discuss why different generations have different values.
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Carrying Obama’s foreign policy mantle
Former ambassador Carey Cavanaugh and political scientist Max Abrahms debate whether Trump’s or Hillary’s views are closer to the president’s. Plus: Would Trump’s foreign policy be worse than Hillary’s?
The DMZ
Evan McMullin, Trump slayer?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis on what happens if the GOP fails to carry Utah for the first time in 52 years.
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Does philosophy need religion?
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