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Critical Complexity – Paul #Cilliers Collected Essays Edited by Rika Preiser #amreading (NB: most of this book’s content was written before Cilliers death in 2011 so please keep this context

There is a significant inequality in AI research according to a new paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15581 Core findings:1.Big Tech & elite universities have increased presence in top AI conf's since the rise of

Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behaviour as a Complex System - Alicia #Juarrero #amreading Understanding all causes as collusion-like, & the explanatory ideal as deduction from deterministic laws, are 2 ex

I promised a few people that I'd compile the Twitter threads of previous books I streamed a while back. What better thing to do when you're sitting in an airport

Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela #Saini #amreading PROLOGUEWhite European scientists began to define what we now think of as race [in the 18 century]... and [their] arbitrary

I hate to sound ungrateful but since the publication of 'Algorithmic colonization of Africa' I've been getting emails along the lines of 'are we doing it wrong?', 'what should we

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Poulo #FreireTranslated by Myra Bergman Ramos #amreading Introduction by Donaldo Macedo (Some context: the book was first written in Portuguese in 1968 and translated and published

Preprint for our paper ‘Robot Right? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead’ is up on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05046v1. @theblub & I argue not just to deny robots ‘rights’, but to deny

"As technology advances, it never becomes less invasive. It never demands less of us. Even now, our privacy is not some pesky impediment to the greater good. It’s not some

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Meredith #Broussard#amreading Captivating and personal opening paragraphs. Gives you insight into the authors background. #Broussard For youthful idealists of my generation, it was

I identify as a man (see below for women and non-binary)Answer only if you identify as a *man*The majority of men who mansplain: I identify as a woman (see for