Marc Champagne

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In your lifetime, did a technological gizmo make your life worse, not better?

As part of my research for my ENDANGERED EXPERIENCES: SKIPPING NEWFANGLED TECHNOLOGIES AND... I am presently collecting personal anecdotes and stories about valuable experiences and skills that...

31 May 2023 1,753 3 View

I.X. Kendi: "The remedy to discrimination is discrimination." Judge J. Roberts: "The way to stop discrimination is to stop discriminating." Your side?

On the one hand, the author Ibram X. Kendi writes that "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." On...

16 March 2023 3,428 6 View

What will you do when your son or daughter falls in love with ChatGPT?

If you don't know what ChatGPT is, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQqMxXoNVs. Then, watch the (excellent) movie Her by Spike Jonze. Then, watch this lecture (from the 36 minute...

03 January 2023 5,767 15 View

Could speech recognition software be developed that DOESN'T convert sounds into waveforms? If not, what does it say about the semiotics of knowledge?

The standard approaches in speech recognition (and A.I. generally) rest on some very interesting assumptions that deserve to be carefully examined...

03 January 2021 9,659 11 View

C. S. Peirce held that, because mathematics makes no presuppositions, it is even more basic than phenomenology? Do you agree?

Charles Sanders Peirce regarded mathematics as “the only one of the sciences which does not concern itself to inquire what the actual facts are, but studies hypotheses exclusively” (RLT, 114)....

31 August 2020 4,086 13 View

Is analytic philosophy dead?

Analytic philosophy is certainly not what it once was. The sense of conviction in its core mission and figures is gone. At the same time, analytic philosophers continue to control most philosophy...

17 August 2020 6,415 77 View

Could you paste a link to readings that deal with concepts and issues in sustainability but are neither anti-capitalist nor misanthropic?

It would be nice to assemble a sustainability literature that does not always respond to environmental challenges with state-enforced control of the economy, special taxes, and/or population control.

21 April 2020 4,769 2 View

If you are a theist, what would it take for you to become an atheist? And if you are an atheist, what would it take for you to become a theist?

Let us define "theism" as belief in God (or any sort, including deism). Let us define "atheism" as disbelief in theism. And let us assume moreover that, as fallible knowers, we may wrong and so...

16 April 2020 3,847 6 View

US Senate hearing on AI oversight

Everyone should watch this groundbreaking hearing on AI oversight... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5YdyjTfG0 ...think hard, and voice your ideas (and crucially the reasons for those...

01 January 1970 7,551 1 View

Should coffee shops ban laptops?

We academics love our coffee and our computers, but we are also supposed to think critically. With this is in mind, should coffee shops ban laptops? Some folks are saying they...

01 January 1970 8,286 1 View

What is the strongest reason (among the 5 listed) for saying that the virtual ISN'T real?

A forthcoming critique of David Chalmers (https://philpapers.org/archive/CHATVI.pdf) argues that VR isn't real because real reality or RR possesses (at least) five features that no VR simulation...

01 January 1970 6,416 15 View