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I just read an excellent article called The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces. I have nothing to really add to the analysis, except to say that these are circles I wish I traveled in. I should move to Silicon Valley and become a freelance philosopher.

The article also references the [...]

finally

Jon links to Forbes’ special edition on AI. I’ll go through most of these, commenting when appropriate. For instance:

Dumb Like Google

While the switch to “stupid” statistically based computing has given us tools like Google, it came with a steep price, namely, abandoning the cherished notion that computers will one day be like [...]

Therefore, machines cannot think

The Death of Alan Turing