Bad Philosophy

One of BF’s largest panels ever dives into the moral choices in contemporary video games like The Old Republic and Skyrim.

Ep110: Good Enough [ 1:08:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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2012 Election, 2012 Olympics, Aaron Sorkin, Arrested Development, beer pong, Beyond Good and Evil, Blackberry, Britton, consequentialism, darts, debate, deontology, dreidel, ethics, Fatal Frame, GameBoy, games, golf, Humble Bundle, Jedi, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Kiki, Kindle, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, Laughing Squid, law, Major League Dreidel, masturbation, Microsoft, Mists of Pandaria, MMORPG, morality, Pokemon, Pokemon Snap, Quidditch, racism, Runescape, Simon, Sith, Skyrim, soccer, sports, Sports Night, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Stephen, storytelling, video games, witches, World of Warcraft, WoW

The human race lost one of its finest this past Wednesday, as Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56. All of us here at BF had opinions to share on the man in the black turtleneck, so Kevin, Jed, Simon, Kiki and I gathered together for our first live-streamed episode in quite some time. [...]

Ep104: Thinking Different [ 53:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Apple, Bill Gates, computers, DOS, IBM, iMac, iPhone, iPod, iWebcamera, Jediah, John Lassater, Kevin, Kiki, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Live, Macintosh, Newton, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PC, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Pixar, Simon, Stephen, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, This Week in Tech, Thomas Edison, TWiT, Twitter, UNIX, Xeni Jardin

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 [...]

Ep102 A.I. Troopers [ 1:10:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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AI, Artificial Heart, artificial intelligence, brain, Clear Channel, CleverBot, cognitive computing, computers, dinosaurs, Flowers for Algernon, football, fossil fuels, Ghost in the Shell, Google Wave, IBM, immortality, Japan, Jeopardy!, John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Coulton, Kant, Kevin, Kiki, Lawnmower Man, Levar Burton, Machine Girl, Machine Man, Magic School Bus, memristor, Michael Crichton, neurobiology, neurology, neuroscience, Peter F. Hamilton, Power Rangers, radio, Reddit, Richard Hatch, robots, Simon, singularity, soul, Stanford, Stephen, Stephen King, Survivor, UTSA, velociraptor, VR Troopers, Watson

In case you haven’t heard, Charlie Sheen has been #WINNING lately. Or so he claims, at least. For some people, “winning” is banging 7-gram rocks with porn stars in a hotel room. For others, it’s resurrecting an ancient brand with crazy new products through the power of pop music. For us on BF, it’s getting [...]

Ep086 Reeks of Humanity [ 59:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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20/20, ABC, abstinence, addiction, agriculture, Alcoholics Anonymous, basketball, Born This Way, BYU, celebrity, CES, Charlie Sheen, Clear Channel, cocaine, cyberpunk, David Bowie, drugs, Emilio Estevez, ethics, farming, feminism, gay marriage, geology, Green Day, health, Hipstamatic, hipsters, Hunter S. Thomson, kangaroos, Keith Richards, Kevin, Kiki, Lady Gaga, Lightroom, Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson, misogyny, Mormons, music, obesity, photography, Polaroid, polygamy, porn, Sean Penn, sex, sexuality, Sheen's Korner, Simon, smoking, Stephen, SXSW, SXSWi, The Rolling Stones, The Who, tigerblood, Twitter, Two and a Half Men, winning, women