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Category Archives: robots doing evil
Mistakes you don’t want to make when applying to philosophy grad schools
January 14, 2009 – 8:08 pm
Accidentally upload ‘robot ninja.jpg’ instead of ‘resume.doc’ in the online application form
Bot-mediated reality
October 20, 2008 – 10:24 pm
Having just spent upwards of 25 hours in a car driving between Peterborough, Toronto, and Pukaskwa National Park, one of the ways we passed the time was listening to a variety of podcasts, including Philosophy Bites, CBC Ideas, and the Long Now Foundation’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT).
While SALT has hosted a bevy of [...]
Consequences of bot-mediated reality
September 17, 2008 – 12:36 pm
I have a lot of catch-up listening to do with regards to The Long Now Foundation’s excellent Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) lecture and podcast series. I’m a charter member of the Foundation, which gets you a sweet membership card and access to video of their lectures, among other less tangible things like knowing you’re [...]
Creepy female robot
July 31, 2008 – 9:02 pm
I had to put this one in “robots doing good” and “robots doing evil” because she’s helping sell sunscreen, which is good, but she’s really disturbing, which is bad.
Robot spiders
May 5, 2008 – 7:55 pm
“Troops to use electronic insects to spot enemy ‘by end of the year’”
Self-re-assembling robots – cue the Terminator references
May 1, 2008 – 8:35 pm
Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart
Nerdy and awesome
US war robots in Iraq aim guns at human masters
April 13, 2008 – 8:54 am
Despite this minor setback, people in the US military were able to keep their cool, and not come to extreme conclusions like, “maybe we shouldn’t put guns on robots.”
Though these friendly looking little guys were pulled from operation, there is no indication that the MQ-9 Reaper airborne wardroids (aka bringers of death from above) have [...]