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The University of Idaho killings

On November 29, last Tuesday (I had posted my first post on the case on Saturday the 26th), I wrote the following in a comment :

Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the victims, readily responds to reporters, sometimes making rather cryptic statements.

Unlike the other parents who, with the exception of the vigil for the four victims where some spoke out, Goncalves continues to be extremely forthcoming, with many commentators admiring his “composure” just weeks after his daughter’s murder. It is true that his understated frown contrasts with the tear-streaked face of Madison Moden’s father, for … Read the rest

“Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, Chapter 4 of a forthcoming book: Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control

Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control, Luca Possati (ed.)

Chapter 4: “Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, by Paul Jorion

For eighty years now speculative thinkers have debated Isaac Asimov’s “3 Laws of robotics”, a bundle of 3 simple interlocking directions supposedly sufficient for regulating the behaviour of robots and making their daily interaction with human beings both useful and unproblematic.

Although Asimov’s 3 laws have been the centre of profuse and vivid exchanges, they’ve been entirely ignored when engineers started to implement actual robots or “intelligent machines” broadly speaking.

The reason for such a surprising disconnect … Read the rest

Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name? by Paul Jorion

What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?

Paul Jorion *
* ETHICS – EA 7446, Université catholique de Lille, 60 Bd Vauban, 59800 Lille, France

Subject: Foundations of mathematics
Cite as: https://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/2022/04/09/unilog-2022-what-makes-a-demonstration-worthy-of-the-name-by-paul-jorion/… Read the rest

This was what Brexit was preparing and enabling the British to do, by Duncan Sutherland

Last night I dreamed a dreadful dream. The world as we knew it ceased to be when a global pestilence descended upon it while its climate changed disastrously and uncontrollably. Standing among the ruins of the ancient Roman forum, the leader of the British revealed that he had had a vision. He had perceived that climate change was like unto the decline and fall of the Roman empire, the collapse of a civilized world.

Himself instrumental in undermining the present-day European empire by releasing the British from its grasp, he now contemplated the chaos and collapse to come when wave … Read the rest

Porto – *Transhumanism and the Future of Humanity* Conference, October 21st and 22d 2021

*Transhumanism and the Future of Humanity*

The abstract of the talk I’ll give.

When Max More describes “transhumanism as a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values”, a strong platform is there clearly defined.

As much however as transhumanism may appear as a tool at what may be labelled as Plan A, i.e. preventing the extinction of the human race on Planet Earth, it provides as well a roadmap for … Read the rest

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