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Notes from the Metaverse (Audio Version)Listen now (25 min) | A week after the fact, here is the audio version of the last installment: “Notes from the Metaverse.” Ordinarily, the audio versi…
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Discussion Thread: Robo-Umpires, Automation, and Outsourced Judgment Hello all, I’m returning to the open discussion thread format, this time on the question of automation and outsourced judgment. All are welcome to comm…
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The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 16
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Nice Image You've Got There. Shame If It Got Memed. On images, pseudo-events, and digital media.
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Outsourcing VirtueThe dream of systems so perfect no one will need to be good remains explicitly compelling in many quarters. It is also tacitly embedded in the practice…
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Welcome Aboard
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Ill With Want (Audio Version)Listen now | An installment titled “Ill With Want” went out a couple of days ago without the audio version. I know that many of you find the audio usef…
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Endless wanting will wreck us and also the world that is our home. By contrast, our economic order and the ostensible health of our society is premised…
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Thresholds of ArtificialityThe story of a human retreat from this world, either to the stars above or the virtual realm within, can mask a disregard for or resignation about what…
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The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 12 | Baseball analytics offer an interesting vantage point from which to consider the nature of data-driven optimiza…
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The Questions Concerning TechnologyA set of 41 questions drafted with a view to helping us draw out the moral or ethical implications of our tools.
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It’s a dangerous business going online. You step into the Database, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off t…
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