Cognitive Engineering
- Autor: Vários
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- Duración: 185:51:44
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Podcast by Aleph Insights
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Animals music
16/03/2018 Duración: 18minWhy do some animals like music, even though they don't make it? Why do we like music? Does it have a purpose? https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/watch-seal-pups-being-soothed-954976 Image: Howcheng via Wikipedia
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Alpha Zero
09/03/2018 Duración: 20minWhat does it mean? Is it a big step or a small one? How could we know?Is Artificial Intelligence becoming a massive anticlimax? Is it inevitable that AI will be better than us? Image: geraldford via Flickr
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Universality
02/03/2018 Duración: 20minWhat is the most universal science? What will be true where ever you go? Philosophical reductionism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-reduction Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser via Wikipedia
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Animal Sentience
23/02/2018 Duración: 18minAre animals sentient? How do we measure sentience? What is sentience anyway? Image: http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Cow-Livestock-Nature-Head-Animal-Cow-Head-1715829
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Better off
16/02/2018 Duración: 17minAre we better off than we were 10 years ago? What is all the free stuff worth to us? https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/sep/29/six-million-low-income-families-worse-off-than-10-years-ago https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction/ Image Clapspremiere via Wikipedia
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Micro transactions
09/02/2018 Duración: 21minIn game purchases. Why do we hate them? Is the a moral repulsion to buying an advantage justified? Gamer backlash against EA: https://gizmodo.com/congratulations-to-ea-games-for-posting-the-most-hated-1820391000 Relational models theory: http://www.rmt.ucla.edu/ ‘Premium mediocre’ - firms trying to hide their business model: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/ Image by Hachimaki
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Multitasking
04/02/2018 Duración: 23minAre we as unproductive as we feel with modern technology? Image: Jeremy Keith via Wikipedia
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Fake Whisky
29/01/2018 Duración: 19minHow do you guarantee provenance? Why are evidence trails difficult? Image: Lyntha Scott Eiler via Wikimedia Commons
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Violent Entertainment
14/01/2018 Duración: 19minIs TV getting more violent?Are we being desensitize to horror and violence? Does something need to be done?
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Swimming with Crocodiles
05/01/2018 Duración: 16minHow dangerous is it to swim with crocodiles? To do so would you be the idiot of the century? Is the notoriety worth it? Image: Magnus Manske via Wikipedia
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Social Questions
30/12/2017 Duración: 19minWhy do we ask questions when we don't really care about the answer? What information can you glean from polite questions? Wouldn't it be better if we just asked direct questions? Image: Minnie E. Kenney Paull via Wikipedia
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Christmas Presents
22/12/2017 Duración: 19minWhy is it so hard to choose presents? Image: JD Hancock via Flickr
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Princesses
16/12/2017 Duración: 20minWhat makes a princess? Does looking the part make a difference? What does it mean to be the genuine article? Image: Kevin Casper
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Not Getting Ripped Off
08/12/2017 Duración: 19minHow do you not look like a tourist? What stops street sellers badgering locals? What is the role of information in haggling? Image: Wanderlane via Flickr
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Parking Meter
01/12/2017 Duración: 20minWhat to parking meters tell us about user interfaces. Why is it so hard to use an unfamiliar keyboard? Why is the numpad on your keyboard the opposite way up than the one on your phone? image: ehendel via pixabay
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Inheritance
03/11/2017 Duración: 17minChris, Nick and Fraser discuss the inheritance and ownership.
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Plot Spoilers
21/10/2017 Duración: 22minSPOILER ALERT - Chris, Nick and Fraser reveal what they think is so emotionally jarring about spoilers.
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Killer Robots
13/10/2017 Duración: 22minChris, Nick and Fraser pass the time in hiding from a T-1000 by discussing automation of weaponry.