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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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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.
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Thinking of artificial intelligence cyborgization with a biblical perspective (anthropology of the old testament)
TL;DR: An attempt to bring cyborgization to the table of the proper theological discussion should be begun with an anthropological view from the Old Testament because the OT covers human nature within the framework of the creation.
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Imitation games: Turing, Menard, Van Meegeren
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take as its starting point Alan Turing's famous ''imitation game'' (the so-called ''Turing Test'), here treated as a parable of the encounter between human original and machine copy.
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"How much realism is needed?" - the wrong question in silico imagers have been asking.
TL;DR: Improved approaches for in silico imaging will lead to the rapid advancement and acceptance of computational techniques in medical imaging primarily but not limited to the regulatory evaluation of new imaging products.
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Liminal subjectivities in contemporary film and literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the intersection of subjectivity and the liminal in contemporary literary and filmic texts is discussed, and the authors explore how liminality manifests in manners both universal and specific to the literary or filmic form.