tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post8227701054292532923..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: The Reactionary Ideology Bolstered By the False Claim That Robots Inhabit MarsDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-37069121273014221872014-10-19T07:55:16.113-07:002014-10-19T07:55:16.113-07:00> To talk about robots as if they are people ma...> To talk about robots as if they are people makes it easier to treat<br />> people as if they are robots. Just as the misrecognition of cars,<br />> phones, homes, cards as "smart" when they are not undermines the<br />> recognition that human beings are smart, a recognition indispensable<br />> to our responsibility to the dignity and standing of human beings,<br />> so too the investment of the nonliving with the connotations of the<br />> living divests the living of the legible terms on which they depend<br />> for their lives.<br /><br />Bah! Human beings -- who needs 'em? ;-><br /><br />Something from today's New York Times:<br /><br />"To Siri, With Love"<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-became-one-autistic-boys-bff.htmljimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com