Please check out this provocative collection of papers at cultural anthropology. Edited by Ryan Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy and Jeremy Trombley (and including my own short commentary), the essays speak to the importance of SF to our imagining of alternatives.
Occasional posts on anthropologically interesting science fiction, anthropological futures and my own future as an anthropologist.
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Turing Tests and ChatGPT’s Sleight of Hand
One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide...

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By Own screenshot, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26632754 I watch people on the Seoul subway playing 쿠키런 (Cookie Run)...
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(from our storymap ) In my capacity as a fellow in our faculty research center, I've been doing a lot of support work for the u...
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[From the SETI project, "A Sign in Space" ( https://asignin.space/ )] “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in...