The latest links…
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- “We developed a new approach to machine learning we call liquid networks [which] result in solutions that are much more compact and explainable than today’s traditional AI systems” — embodied artificial cognition, or what we learn about AI from trying to put it in robots
- How can you get the most out of graduate school in philosophy? — the start of the school year is a good time to revisit this advice from Douglas Portmore (Arizona State)
- “It’s possible for an act to harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead” — David Boonin (Colorado) talks with Jason Chen (Ohio State) about posthumous harm
- A course on philosophical approaches to the question of Palestine — a syllabus with discussion questions and links to readings from the Society for Anti-Colonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought
- “Human beings can’t swim like swordfish or sprint like cheetahs but, for all that, we’re physically very impressive animals” — David Egan on why the “persistent tendency to suppose that we’re not” is a “self-aggrandizing myth… that supports an ideology that has been ecologically devastating”
- What are children for? — a conversation with Anastasia Berg (Hebrew U.) and Rachel Wiseman (The Point), who co-authored a book on the subject
- Do people in a vegetative state have any awareness of what is going on around them? — a new study suggests that for some–maybe 25%–the answer is yes
BONUS: “Possible side effects of FOH include seeing your professor as a human for the first time…” (a video that might inspire your students to come to office hours):
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