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I love experiments. At the heart of an experiment is a question. And what drives a question is curiosity. Modern AI tools accelerate the curious by reducing friction from the tasks of gathering information and building prototypes. We can move faster. These days, whenever I’m mildly curious about something, I just hold the power button on my pixel and ask a question directly to gemini.
Time and time again throughout my college career, I’ve thought to myself “Why am I out here rowing?? I’m falling behind where I could be if I was studying and learning and making cool stuff instead!”
At the Tuft’s college boathouse, I spotted a book - “Rowing Blazers” by Jack Carlson. Naturally, having spent the past year rowing for Exeter College Boat Club (ECBC) at Oxford (and experiencing many of the traditions which go on there including blazers) I was interested. I found the Exeter College page: Wow! We invented the tie??? I had never heard of this before. Asking my friends on the team,…
I’m working with a friend, making a poster in google slides. We have a bar chart to add to the poster, so naturally we download it as an SVG (scalable vector graphics - i.e. it never gets pixelated no matter how far you zoom in) and upload it to google slides.
When people from different cultures interact, misunderstanding may occur. I think one cause of this arises from the increased difficulty of empathizing with (or putting yourself in the shoes of) someone raised in a different cultural environment. Another cause, which I would like to shed some light on in this post, are variations in societal norms. The example I want to analyze here is saying…
This is a story about a clever protocol, an unlikely implementation, and an ironic ending.
This essay is the sixth essay of my Ethics of AI philosophy tutorial (under the tutelage of Benjamin Lang). In the essay, I attempt to answer two questions: (1) Could AI be conscious? and (2) If AI can be consious, how can we build a conscious AI system / reliably test for consiousness? During the tutorial, I found out that Eric Schwitzgebel, the author of the main articles I draw from, is Ben’s…
Our names and our blades Etched in front quad forever The rowing spirit
This essay is the fifth essay of my Ethics of AI philosophy tutorial (under the tutelage of Benjamin Lang). In the essay, I aim to investigate the pros and cons of relationships with robots, assuming they are possible. I try to focus on “virtue friendships” - relationships where the relationship itself is valued, not as a means to some other end. To answer the question of “should we enter into…
This essay is my fourth essay for my Ethics of AI philosophy tutorial (under the tutelage of Benjamin Lang). In the essay, I stumble my way through arguing that not all jobs should be replaced by machines. This was not my finest work. During the tutorial we talked about the weakness of some of my arguments (like that control of offspring is connected to autonomy), how I stated conjecture as truth,…