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アンドロイドは電気羊の夢を見るか? : Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Philip K. Dick,久志 浅倉 +1 more
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A TURTLE WHICH EXPLORER CAPTAIN COOK GAVE TO THE KING OF TONGA IN 1777 DIED YESTERDAY. It was NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
A TURTLE WHICH EXPLORER CAPTAIN COOK GAVE TO THE KING OF TONGA IN 1777 DIED YESTERDAY. IT WAS NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD. THE ANIMAL, CALLED TU'IMALILA, DIED AT THE ROYAL PALACE GROUND IN THE TONGAN CAPITAL OF NUKU, ALOFA. THE PEOPLE OF TONGA REGARDED THE ANIMAL AS A CHIEF AND SPECIAL KEEPERS WERE APPOINTED TO LOOK AFTER IT. IT WAS BLINDED IN A BUSH FIRE A FEW YEARS AGO. TONGA RADIO SAID TU'IMALILA'S CARCASS WOULD BE SENT TO THE AUCKLAND MUSEUM IN NEW ZEALAND.read more
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Autoencoding Blade Runner: reconstructing films with artificial neural networks
Terence Broad,Mick Grierson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss how the project explores the aesthetic qualities of the disembodied gaze of the neural network and describe how the autoencoder is also capable of reinterpreting films it has not been trained on, transferring the visual style it has learned from watching Blade Runner.
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Conscience as a design benchmark for social robots
TL;DR: This paper investigates the merits of conscience as a design primitive for social Robots and proposes that for social robots to function in real social relationships with human beings, it is necessary to understand the nature of human beings themselves from beyond an engineering perspective of objects of a certain kind.
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Elements of Cold War in the American Science Fiction Novel of the 1950s and 1960s
TL;DR: In this article, Jadro":""},{"PRACE je rozdelene na styri casti, casto paranoidne predstavy americkej verejnosti týkajuce sa======vystupňovania vojny do katastrofických scenarov.
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Transhumanism and Singularity: A Comparative Analysis of a Radical Perspective in Contemporary Works
TL;DR: In this article, the transhumanist Bahis and transhumanism is used to describe a transhumanization of the human body and its relationship with the human brain, which is called transhumanizm.
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From the Grotesque to Nuclear-Age Precedents: The Modes and Meanings of Cli-fi Humor
TL;DR: This paper analyzed how humor operates on crucial rhetorical and narrative levels in the climate fiction of Atwood and Ian McEwan and found that humor can distract from and snap us out of the paralysis of fear, encouraging a self-reflexive mode of reading.
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Design fiction as world building
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the best way to contribute to the establishment of an evidence-based first paradigm, is by adopting a research through design approach, and they describe the creation of two Design Fictions through which they consider the relationship between narrative and Design Fiction and argue that links between the two are often drawn erroneously.
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A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences
Eric Schwitzgebel,Mara Garza +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two principles for ethical AI design recommend themselves: (1) design AIs that tend to provoke reactions from users that accurately reflect the AIs' real moral status, and (2) avoid designing AIs whose moral status is unclear.
Hacking the Future: The Space and Place of Earth in Postcolonial Science Fiction
TL;DR: Hacking the Future as discussed by the authors proposes a spatially attuned reading protocol to assist scholars engaging twenty-first century post-colonized science fiction, arguing that postcolonial writers use Earth-spaces to "hack" into constructions of the future, establishing postcolonial SF as a type of literary activism.
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The Dreadful Credibility of Absurd Things: A Tendency in Fantasy Theory
TL;DR: Although it is unclear whether, by ‘fantasy,’ Butler intended a narrow denition (generic fantasy, i.e., imitation Tolkien heroic or epic fantasy and sword ’n’ sorcery) or a broad denition as mentioned in this paper, such statistics nonethless make the need for a Marxist theory or preferably, Marxist theories of the fantastic selfevident.
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Design fiction:does the search for plausibility lead to deception?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the plausibility of design fictions, looking at examples that are (1) obviously design fiction, (2) identified as design fiction and (3) whose status is either ambiguous or concealed.