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[ February 3, 2025] CFP for conference or similar: Digital Worlds Workshop https://philevents.org/event/show/129302

Digital Worlds Workshop
The philosophy departments at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and The University of North Dakota invite submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 25-27 2025 . We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds. The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding. People can increasingly be said to “live on their phones” or other dev…

The ruble has lost 1/3rd of its value vs. the yuan, but if you factor in OTHER extra costs...
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China strongly limits Russian access to tech in mech. engineering, aviation, and microelectronics.
"...they openly tell us: if you want to get some technologies, buy the product as a whole. We say: no, at best we need components that we'll replace soon. They tell us: we understand this, but aren't going to do it at normal prices. Here is double the price - please.&…

КамАЗ пожаловался на нежелание китайцев делиться технологиями и надеется на возвращение западных партнеров
Российский бизнес, как и власти, надеется на скорое возвращение западных компаний и инвесторов, ушедших из страны после начала полномасштабной войны.

Okay I just discovered Technology Connections is on fedi (@…) and I’m literally so fucking happy now, why didn’t I check their YouTube about section earlier

>If this is the way to superintelligence, it remai https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32982890

Perfume rec: Tokyo Milk Dead Sexy or Tainted Love!
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[ April 10, 2025 - April 11, 2025] Conference or similar: AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT https://philevents.org/event/show/125022

AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT
The advent of increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous forms of artificial intelligence poses a challenge to understandings of the human place in the cosmos in ways perhaps as profound as the Copernican Revolution.  And while artificial general intelligence is not yet and may never be a reality, digital technologies are already introducing powerful new possibilities for deception, surveillance, and bias, exacerbating polarization, and changing the meaning of intimacy, care, creati…