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This post discusses AI-enhanced AR glasses and how these could be used in war. It addresses the epistemological problems for the soldiers and how they are ethically incapable of being responsible if they use such devices.

Click the link below to play the game: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/9f5596c6-f1e6-40aa-8ae3-4974231af8ee The above didn't work, second attempt here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/963c3693-b12a-4ef2-b849-bd0a44afc36d

[Note: this is not a blog post; it's for a class to easily access materials on one webpage!] Decision-based RPG game: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7e4f6339-7633-46a6-83d2-e52331f55cdf Prompt used to create that game: "Make a text-based RPG game about a hero with a gender neutral name saving a princess from a castle with a dragon. Allow the player to make decisions about how to navigate the castle (e.g., go up to the first floor, go to the basement, etc). Have a few rand

My favorite genre of fiction (a term that for me includes comic books, film, television, and videogames) explores brutal post-apocalyptic worlds, highlighting the characters who manage to survive them. My love of this genre has something to do with “grit,” a term with (at least) two senses, or meanings.   The first, academic, sense of “grit” can be defined with psychologist Angela Duckworth’s gloss: grit is “perseverance in the pursuit of passion.” But the colloquial sense of

If we trust Aristotle’s account of the history of (metaphysical) philosophy, the first philosopher was Thales of Miletus . He’s the one who started “this sort” of philosophy, Aristotle says in the third chapter of his Metaphysics , not philosophy proper ( Metaphysics 983b20).   Stereotyped as an absent-minded philosopher, Plato depicts him falling into a well while staring up at the stars ( Theaetetus  174a). Aristotle’s history doesn’t help over-turn the narrative of philos

These are the top 15 journals in ancient philosophy. With links to the actual contents inside. Academic philosophy.

These are 10 essential recent texts on Plato’s epistemology, or theory of knowledge.