Tag: empathy

My roomba is scared of thunderstorms

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My roomba is scared of thunderstorms

I was sitting at my desk just a few minutes ago, drawing, and a really loud crack of thunder went off–no power surges or anything, just thunder–and my roomba fled from its dock and started spinning in circles

I currently now have an active roomba sitting quietly on my lap

Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’

Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’

Rather, the present urgency, according to pop culture, is around this: Will advanced AI deserve human rights? Should we cut back on cursing out Siri as she gets savvier, or outlaw kicking the next generation’s Furby?

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It’s especially easy to empathize with Black Mirror’s digital ghosts because they are derived from real people. Yet in the show’s universe, too few people do empathize. Which raises the dark question of how much worse people would treat entities that don’t so blatantly resemble their friends but still do have a rich, lively consciousness.

Painting with a Roomba and International Klein Blue

Addie Wagenknecht, Self portrait–loneliness is what we can’t do for each other. IKB dry pigment and resin on canvas. 80 x 90 in / 203.2 x 228.6 cm. 2017. Courtesy of bitforms gallery.

[…] as we become more dependent on digital devices to mediate our actions and interactions, we begin to experience them as “creatures” instead of machines and form bonds with them.

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