Bad Philosophy » dinosaurs http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random philosophical musings about pretty much anything. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) Philosophy 1440 http://www.badphilosophy.com/podcast/BF_Logo_144x144_Color.jpg Bad Philosophy http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog 144 144 Upsetting the balance of reality, one rabbit trail at a time Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random musings about everything from the nature of reality to the essence of modern digital society. Every week Stephen Torrence and Kevin Saunders invite guests from greater Texas Tech to chew the cud and make some magic. The more rabbit trails the better... philosophy, random, humor, college, politics, life The Bad Philosophers The Bad Philosophers captainvalor@gmail.com no clean Episode 102: A.I. Troopers http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2011/09/29/episode-102-a-i-troopers/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2011/09/29/episode-102-a-i-troopers/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:44:08 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=287 For the last century or so, we have had a healthy little obsession with replicating the human ability to reason using machines. We here at BF are happy to announce that these efforts have finally brought us the holy grail of artificial intelligence: robot radio DJs! That’s right, now you can enjoy all your favorite radio banter distilled down to its bare, Cleverbot-on-Cleverbot essentials. This episode Kevin, Simon, Kiki and I put our connectomes together to discuss Stanford’s free A.I. class and marvel at the sheer 90′s gloriousness of VR Troopers. Let’s hope Watson adds some rabbit trails to its thought routines, ’cause we’re pretty sure he’ll be our guest someday. Until then, it’s BF time!

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “VR Troopers Intro” (via YouTube)

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2011/09/29/episode-102-a-i-troopers/feed/ 0 1:10:59 For the last century or so, we have had a healthy little obsession with replicating the human ability to reason using machines. We here at BF are happy to announce that these efforts have finally brought us the holy grail of artificial intelligence:[...] Bad Philosophy Episode 102 "A.I. Troopers" Recorded 09-02-2011 Bad Philosophers: Stephen Torrence, Kevin Saunders, Kiki Canon, Simon Ponder For the last century or so, we have had a healthy little obsession with replicating the human ability to reason using machines. We here at BF are happy to announce that these efforts have finally brought us the holy grail of artificial intelligence: robot radio DJs! That's right, now you can enjoy all your favorite radio banter distilled down to its bare, Cleverbot-on-Cleverbot essentials. This episode Kevin, Simon, Kiki and I put our connectomes together to discuss Stanford's free A.I. class and marvel at the sheer 90's gloriousness of VR Troopers. Let's hope Watson adds some rabbit trails to its thought routines, 'cause we're pretty sure he'll be our guest someday. Until then, it's BF time! Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 057: Philocalypse How? http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/01/28/episode-057-philocalypse-how/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/01/28/episode-057-philocalypse-how/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:43:02 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=189 Quick! There’s an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that’s what! On this show we tackled that ever-present subject of the apocalypse. Kevin Saunders joined me alongside the recently crippled Jediah Cummins. We also had our FIRST EVER “caller” on BF, the lovely and entertaining vlogger Margaret Kammer. So sit down, relax, and enjoy your pending doom the BF way!

This week’s post-show song pimpage: “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” by R.E.M.

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/01/28/episode-057-philocalypse-how/feed/ 5 0:54:10 Quick! There’s an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that’s what! On this show we tackled that ever-pre[...] Bad Philosophy Episode 057 "Philocalypse How? Recorded 01-24-10 Quick! There's an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that's what! On this show we tackled that ever-present subject of the apocalypse. Kevin Saunders joined me alongside the recently crippled Jediah Cummins. We also had our FIRST EVER "caller" on BF, the lovely and entertaining vlogger Margaret Kammer. So sit down, relax, and enjoy your pending doom the BF way! Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 012: Close Enough for Brains in Vats http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2008/11/23/episode-012-close-enough-for-brains-in-vats/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2008/11/23/episode-012-close-enough-for-brains-in-vats/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:50 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=68 Technology is a tricky thing. When it works, it’s wonderful, and when it doesn’t… heads explode. For the most part, BF’s first foray into high-tech recording went swimmingly. We did have a couple of complications, but despite having to crowd around a single AKG condenser microphone, our intrepid panel managed to record one of the best BFs yet. Dr. Webb joined us to tackle Kevin’s simple-yet-deep question: “Is man unnatural?” As you can see by the tag list, said tackling took us on a bit of a wild ride. Less “Bad,” more “Philosophy,” totally BF. Enjoy the show…

Remember you can watch the episode on Stickam. We looked darn spiffy. Really.

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