Thomas Arnold
@thomasarnold.bsky.social
HRI, AI, religious studies, pragmatism, ethics | Researching and teaching ethics at Tufts Institute for AI/Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory | He/him | realism: visceral | writing rhythm: corpseflower
Rhymes with freon
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Rhymes with freon
"affected, they said, by influenza" might exceed "picnic, lightning" in parenthetical brilliance, especially read in 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"affected, they said, by influenza" might exceed "picnic, lightning" in parenthetical brilliance, especially read in 2025.
The late Peirce's comments on "logical machines" suggest he saw the whole problem of reasoning without sensory encounter with the world (which was, yeah it can do a lot but it's not logic in the full pragmatic sense) before both GOFAI and FAUXFAI.
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The late Peirce's comments on "logical machines" suggest he saw the whole problem of reasoning without sensory encounter with the world (which was, yeah it can do a lot but it's not logic in the full pragmatic sense) before both GOFAI and FAUXFAI.
Awesome, I need to watch.
October 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Awesome, I need to watch.
Faculties kept inside during recess
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Faculties kept inside during recess
Reverse Turing car
August 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reverse Turing car
The cost of Omelas is but one small prediction machine.
August 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The cost of Omelas is but one small prediction machine.
Yeah I like yours better
August 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yeah I like yours better
Bezos and MAHA are turning Jonah Goldberg's "You know Whole Foods and obsession with healthy eating is fascist" from laughable NR cruise banter to grounded analysis.
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Bezos and MAHA are turning Jonah Goldberg's "You know Whole Foods and obsession with healthy eating is fascist" from laughable NR cruise banter to grounded analysis.
I don't remember the exact words of his risotto video but every five seconds he seemed to drop a cooking bar with clear objective correlates to life, leaving me bereft for not having already learned all of them.
July 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I don't remember the exact words of his risotto video but every five seconds he seemed to drop a cooking bar with clear objective correlates to life, leaving me bereft for not having already learned all of them.
It is a theater movie, almost self-referentially so in one immersive scene.
July 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It is a theater movie, almost self-referentially so in one immersive scene.
When Big Fun Broke
July 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When Big Fun Broke
Reposted by Thomas Arnold
Excellent!
In the same spirit, here's a piece on AI hype I wrote in....1985 🤯
melaniemitchell.me/EssaysConten...
In the same spirit, here's a piece on AI hype I wrote in....1985 🤯
melaniemitchell.me/EssaysConten...
melaniemitchell.me
June 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Excellent!
In the same spirit, here's a piece on AI hype I wrote in....1985 🤯
melaniemitchell.me/EssaysConten...
In the same spirit, here's a piece on AI hype I wrote in....1985 🤯
melaniemitchell.me/EssaysConten...