http://eripsa.org/blog human-cyborg relations Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:03:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/11/its-learning/ Godel was quite at home with the idea that as logic and mathematics progress, machines would increasingly take over the “Yes-No” part of the enterprise. Any notion that Godel would have embraced an argument by analogy from the undecidability of FOL to the perpetual intractability of the k-symbol provability problem ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/11/godel-on-machines/ 11:59 AM Steve: if applying for job with Obama Admin: (10) Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any posts or comments on blogs or other websites) you have authored, individually or with others. ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/11/govt-20/ http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/11/my-brain/ http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/10/robot-calls-addendum/ On Jay Leve, the guy behind SurveyUSA All these polls were being conducted in a bedroom-sized chamber just outside Leve's door called "the vault," in recognition of its actual use back when a rare-coins dealer owned the space. Leve led me inside, and pointed to a corner. "We even kept one ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/10/robocalls/ ... and when they have observ'd, that the principal disturbance in society arises from those goods, which we call external, and from their looseness and easy transition from one person to another; they must seek for a remedy by putting these goods, as far as possible, on the same footing ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/10/possessed/ If one of the fundamental problems of the technological world is the explosion of information, then it seems to me that the task of 'sensemaking' is a burden that must be taken up by both humans and machines. This is where the real power of human-machine collaboration lies: machines are ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/10/a-conversation-with-david-pescowitz/ The eventual theoretical foundation of Internet Studies (tm) combines the collapse of ontology with an integrated and consistent set of nudges and an active and self-sustaining community of spimes. Let's call these the Three Pillars of the Internet Age. These pillars are bound together by what I will call a ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/08/the-three-pillars/ This is really old in internet time, but I just watched it now and it is definitely worth it. David Weinberger is a philosopher by training, and tells basically the same Aristotle to Heidegger story I tell in my own class. See also: Ontology is Overrated and Information R/Evolution. Coming ... http://eripsa.org/blog/2008/08/everything-is-miscellaneous/