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We’ve Extended the Call For Proposals until April 30th. That’s nine more days to get your submissions in! Tell your Friends!
The Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, an…
Laval itself was gorgeous, both less expensive and a whole lot friendlier than Paris. I’d actually possibly have preferred to stay there.
Dear. Why did you take a picture of me walking?
I’m still Raising Money to Try To Get To France.
Still writing my chapter for Futurama And Philosophy (REALLY need to step this up, as it’s due in a week).
Sent my abstract/proposal to the “Risk and Rapture” conference.
Now I’m also giving a panel presentation at MomoCon, on March 10, at 1pm. It’s titled Discussion of Ghost in the Shell and its impact on the Science of the Future and Cyberpunk in general. Room 209, in the Hilton.
And then there’s the secret, but REALLY SUPER AWESOME thing that happened that I can’t talk about yet, but, as soon as I can, You Will Know.
Things are going well, but I just need to make myself Do Them.
Speaking of which, time to get on the road, so I can get to KSU in time to grade papers.
Ta.
Oingo Boingo - [No One Lives Forever]—- That’s the “Risk and Rapture: Apocalyptic Imagination in Late Modernity” abstract done and sent. When I know whether I got it, I’ll post the abstract, here, but, honestly, you’ve read more informal versions of it in my work over at The Breaking Time.
C-Tec - [Foetal]—- I need to finish my Futurama And Philosophy chapter, this week, so I can have time to do edits, etc.
Tomorrow and Wednesday will be for grading the papers what need it.
I was thinking about submitting to Correspondences, but I think I’ll wait until the first issue is out, and see their focus. Also takes a weight off of this round.
Please don’t forget I have this fundraiser going, and a HUGE thanks to the people who’ve already donated.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let the Bells Ring—- I can do this. Let’s do this.
Scroobius Pip - Introdiction—- Hey Folks. Remember how I said I’d be asking you all for help, again, soon?
Well here’s this: https://www.wepay.com/donations/vric-travel-expenses-fund
Scroobius Pip - Domestic Silence—-I really appreciate anything you can do, here. Anything at all.
Updated with approximate expenses.
Scroobius Pip - Introdiction—- Hey Folks. Remember how I said I’d be asking you all for help, again, soon?
Well here’s this: https://www.wepay.com/donations/vric-travel-expenses-fund
Scroobius Pip - Domestic Silence—-I really appreciate anything you can do, here. Anything at all.
Just a note for this post: If seemingly innocuous phrases are capitalized, it’s probably because they’re links. All pictures, except that final screencap, by unknownbinaries. Got it? Good.
Yesterday was pretty fantastic. We Got Dressed, got a cab, got my poster, and got to the University, all for about 20 pounds, found a really helpful woman who was smoking on the roof of one of the buildings who let us use her wifi login to check where we were supposed to be heading.
We found the place and got all checked in, got my poster up, and noticed that I’d forgotten to put my name on it. Some really eager CompSci kids were acting as porters/runners for the whole thing and were very interested in talking to people, and so one of them showed me the nearest printer, whereupon I put my name and a QR code of my CV link on a sheet, printed it out, and pinned it to my poster. Picture of Said Poster Here.
I went to John Basl’s talk, and asked questions about the potential for an unforeseeable and fundamental otherness of machine morality, as due to an analogous fundamental otherness of machine preferences. Was told that that would be the subject of a longer, more intricate follow-up paper.
I Took Notes for a presentation I didn’t get to give.
I went to the Machine Question Symposium’s keynote address, wherein I asked them the question of whether they accounted for the potential ethical perspectives lost by the initial constraints of their system? That is, by initially limiting choice and systematic preference of Intelligent Autonomous Machines,” as they called them, isn’t it likely that they were setting themselves up to lose whatever ethical systems an evolving machine intelligence might develop on its own?
Their initial response was a nonplussed look, and “That’s a really interesting question; I hadn’t thought of that.” We talked about it for a little while, and discussed the merits of not constraining or limiting ethical inputs, but rather increasing their iterations as being of a number. That machines should obviously be made in such a way as they understand and respect human needs and concerns, but that they can also develop unique perspectives which humans might not see, but which might be meaningful to humans.
Again, I thought there was going to be some small presentation of papers— say 15 minutes or so— but that was not the case. It was more us standing around in front of the posters, and Talking To Those Who Stopped By, which, honestly i can do all day. It wasn’t what I’d thought, but I did have some really fantastic conversations with people who were Interested In My Poster.
After this was the buffet dinner, which was good enough, and then we went upstairs to the university museum. There were some really great paintings, there, and some fantastic sculpture, including this one of Shiva Dancing As Nataraja.
After this, we went out for drinks, more conversation, and—for the others— more drinks.
Flogging Molly - [These Exiled Years]—- Then we walked back to the hotel with two of our locals, late, and very tired.
Nirvana - [Swap Meet]—- Finally, one of the things given in the check-in bag, yesterday, was a flash drive. (The Gothsicles - Blip to Be Squarewave). On that flash drive? The journal proceedings, containing pretty much every paper from this conference, arranged by symposium. Including Mine.
The Builders and the Butchers - [Golden and Green]—- Yes. Yes, indeed.
I am now solidified in my desire to get all of us together under an umbrella, so we can do this kind of thing, together, for as long as we can stand it.
Jimmy Smith - [Stay Loose (Lyrics Born Remix)]—- I want to live my life being able to do this kind of thing, forever.
We’re back into it, today. Deep Breaths.
http://machinequestion.org/symposium/
http://machinequestion.org/symposium/papers.html
http://machinequestion.org/symposium/schedule.html
https://www.wepay.com/donations/machine-question-symposium-travel-expenses-fund
That is all.
So. This is a thing:
http://machinequestion.org/symposium/papers.html
Look at the very bottom (Alphabetical order, yo).
Now that I’m listed on the webpage, I feel like I HAVE to make it.
To that end, please see Last Night’s Post
What we have here is the Abstract for my Machine Question Symposium Paper.
I figure it would be a good orientation point.
