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Tag Archives: Web comic
SMBC: Fixing social media
via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (click through for red button caption) These days, I usually share these on Twitter, but this one seemed more relevant for this venue. Despite using Twitter to share interesting articles and sites, I’ve never found … Continue reading
SMBC: Do humans have feelings?
Apropos to the previous post, albeit from a different angle. Hovertext: “This comic was posted in order to increase my social status, acquire wealth, and thus improve the reproductive fitness of my offspring.” Click through for full sized version and … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology, Mind, Philosophy of Mind, robots, Web comic, Zach Weiner
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SMBC: What researchers study
This seems relevant to some of our discussion on the previous post. via smbc-comics.com (Click though for hovertext and red button caption.) The last caption may be in reference to these developments: The latest genetic modification techniques fall outside of existing … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged Ethics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Science, Web comic, Zach Weiner
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xkcd: Why Asimov put the Three Laws of Robotics in the order he did
Source: xkcd: The Three Laws of Robotics The Three Laws from the Wikipedia article: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged Artificial intelligence, Isaac Asimov, Robot, Science fiction, Three Laws of Robotics, Web comic, xkcd
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SMBC: Proof altruism exists?
(Click through for full sized version and for the red button caption.) via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Of course, as we discussed on the Selfish Gene post, even if we are acting completely altruistically at a conscious level, our impulse to … Continue reading
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Tagged Altruism, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, Psychology, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Selfish Gene, Web comic
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SMBC: Free will and personal responsibility
Click through to see full sized version. I’ll have to remember this strategy. via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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Tagged Free will, Personal responsibility, Philosophy, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, SMBC, Web comic, Zach Weiner
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How to divide up the wealth
Click through to see the full sized version, and a popup bubble comment from the author. via Buried Treasure – Existential Comics. If you don’t know much about these guys, Marx wants to divide up in the communist manner, Rawls wants … Continue reading
Finding platonism
Click through to see the full version. Be sure not to miss the popup bubble on the second page. via The Sighting – Existential Comics.
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Tagged Existential Comics, Mathematics, Philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, Platonism, Web comic
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