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•    Just One Thing Wrong with “Humans”
•    Why We Want While Rivers Don’t
•    Will Still Exists Even if It’s Not Free
•    The Paradox of Free Will
•    Key Question about Robot Sex – Can it be Consensual?
•    Imminent Battle Droids Are Still Not AI
•    Lawrence Krauss Won’t Worry, but Most People Should – a Little
•    Quick Paradox: You Can’t be Grateful to Be Alive
•    Paradoxical Zombie Pirates of the Caribbean
•    Chinese Room Step 4: Wanting to Pursue Your Goal
•    Chinese Room Step 3: Pumping Out Electricity
•    Chinese Room Step 2: Nobody is Outside!
•    Chinese Room Step 1: Drop the Homunculus
•    China Brain Initiative Sounds Self-Defeating
•    Why Not Go for a Head-Transplant?
•    The End of the Paperclip Maximizer
•    How the Paperclip Maximizer Might Change its Ways
•    No, the Turing Test is Not Really Bullshit
•    Hawking and Musk Aren’t Worried about So-called Weak AI
•    That’s not AI – It’s Just Fancy Programming
•    Impossible to Believe in both God and AI
•    AI Brains Will be Analog Computers, Of Course
•    Jaron Lanier Says AI Philosophy is More Dangerous than AI
•    Comparing AI to ET: Evolution is the Common Denominator
•    Would We be Cruel to Create a Real AI?
•    Chatbots are the Lowest of the Low – PZ Myers #2
•    AI Won’t Have Human-like Hygiene Problems – PZ Myers
•    Flash Fiction: Two Brainstorms about Trees
•    People Actually Prefer Taking Orders from Robots
•    Six Ways to Recognize a Crackpot AI Theorist
•    Let’s Go Ahead and be ‘Biological Boot Loaders’ for AI
•    Look at the Huge Difference between Artificial and Natural Selection
•    Why is Star Trek so Bad at AI?
•    Flash Fiction: Toupee-Wearing Man at the Barber Shop
•    Trees are Not Bored, But Humanity May Be
•    Why Can’t I Drive Anywhere in My Zombie Car?
•    Real AI Might Not Even Pass the Turing Test Anyway
•    AI Needs Its Body – But Not For Our Sake
•    I’d Fight the AI Apocalypse, But Just Let Me Sit Down a Moment
•    Why Have a Worldview? Reality Will Not Be Viewed
•    Complaining about Existential Ennui is Self-Contradictory
•    Boredom Might be More Exciting than You Think
•    Life Evolves – AI Must Also Evolve
•    Wanting Can’t be Hard-Coded, but Machines Already Want
•    Everyone Loves the Mind-blowing AI of “Her”
•    Magic is Agency
•    Hofstadter is Right that Real AI Still Eludes Us
•    We Name Ideas After Their Outputs
•    Why is Barbie Bad while He-Man is OK? Three Theories
•    Show Us the Design, Creationists, and Stop Being So Negative
•    Use Conway’s Game of Life for a Smart Argument with Creationists
•    Dolphins Need Their Rights Today – AI Machines Will Need Rights Too
•    Smart Girl Character Makes Jurassic Park Movie Better than the Book
•    Japanese Cleaning Robot Offends for All the Wrong Reasons
•    Finicky Machine Spurns Google’s Call, Refuses to Recognize Cats
•    Japanese Dog Reading a Book with Scarf and Tea
•    The Singularity May Have Already Happened, and We are Just Too Dumb to Notice
•    What’s So Hard about Phenomenology?
•    Boredom is the Bane of Spaceflight, says Maggie Koerth-Baker
•    Christian Philosopher Jay Richards Mentions Searle, Jumps to Conclusions
•    Yes, Wheelbarrows Make us Weaker – Relatively Speaking
•    The Computational Theory of Mind is Just Missing the Flow
•    What Good is a River if it Has No Mouth?