But are they REALLY happy?
A year ago I talked with Eric Schwitzgebel about his new story Momentary Sage, his Philosophers’ Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction Recommendations, and the next moral frontier. Now it’s time to dust off that conversation in celebration of the publication of my novella PETROLEA!
What’s this about a suicidal baby?
Steve Bein and the podcast I did with him about his book, Disciple of the Wind
Maybe don’t kill everyone?
Eric’s list of science fiction authors enjoyed by philosophers
Top four: Ursula LeGuin, Ted Chiang, Philip K. Dick, and Greg Egan
There are no marching orders in philosophy.
Dan admits to not having read Philip K. Dick
What’s the difference between robots and animals?
Our moral duty toward artificial intelligence
Nick Bostrom and Hedonium, a substance that feels only pleasure
Why Save the Mechanical Rainforest?
John Searle doesn’t think something programmed can be conscious
Turbofanatic and the screaming laptop!
Here’s a shotgun. Blow off ASIMO‘s head.
District 9’s anthropomorphic prawns and Simon Roy’s…prawn-opomorphic prawns
Anthropomorphic Chauvinism!
The Expanding Circle (not written by Steven Pinker, but by Peter Singer)
Robert Sapolsky (baboon guy with beard) who introduced me to the Ikea lamp commercial
Maybe our gut intuitions don’t form a coherent whole
Developing the moralometer
Interstellar’s special effects predicted something about black holes
Solaris and His Master’s Voice
And we end things before one of Them hears us and catches on…