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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and a principal at LynxDC, a Washington, DC strategic communication firm. His home on the Internet is here.
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Archive for September, 2007
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A Peircean Checklist For Conscious Artificial Intelligence
Posted on September 11, 2007 | 1 CommentAnti-cognitivst curmudgeon David Gelernter has a sustained critique of digital AI in Technology Review: I believe it is hugely unlikely, though not impossible, that a conscious mind will ever be built out of software. Even if it could be, the... -
Cog Sci Blog Roundup
Posted on September 9, 2007 | No CommentsWe’ve got a couple posts in the hopper – a Peirce vs. Deleuze post (of all things) and a post about how scientific triumphalism empowering anti-science right and the left – but little time to clean them up right now.... -
Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Red Bull And… Wait, What?
Posted on September 9, 2007 | No CommentsSometimes Amazon’s algorithms do a really good job. Sometimes they suggest things about American shopping patterns that might have been better left unknown: There are millions and millions of data points that gave rise to this suggestion. Awesome. References: *... -
Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Collected Works Of Freud Published
Posted on September 3, 2007 | 2 CommentsSigh. About a minute and a half elapsed between Amazon’s server firing this email off and us purchasing the book. This – despite already having most of it in various pieces from various classes. We apparently have what marketers refer... -
The Psychoanalytic Pushback Against Philosophy Of Consciousness
Posted on September 3, 2007 | No CommentsStudies like that consciousness of bacteria one from a couple of days ago sometimes get appropriated for “see, humans aren’t all that special” kinds of moves. But everything rhetorical – everything that reserves a special place for the intersubjective relationship... -
USC’s Student Portal Just Plain Mean
Posted on September 3, 2007 | No CommentsUSC’s IT infrastructure sometimes seems like it’s run by a bunch of meth-addicted hamsters. True conversation from last week: Omri: The wireless network is crashing every few minutes Them: Yeah, that always happens during the first week of school Omri:... -
Job Call Roundup – Who Got Their Calls Into Spectra On Time? Edition
Posted on September 3, 2007 | No CommentsWe were going to separate these calls into really obnoxious categories – “best line that no one will share any rumors about”, “best call that makes absolutely no sense”, “best offer with prospects for free catered lunches”. Then we remembered...
