Category: Week 11 (March 26 + 28)
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After Yang: World-building and understanding Cultural Dominance
One of the most interesting aspects presented in After Yang seemed to be a rather modern conceptualization cultural dominance and cultural hierarchy. Fundamentally, the world-building presented here serves as a rather enlightening as it gives not only interpretation unto different uses of technology in daily lives of regular families worldwide in this contemporary interpretation, but…
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Yang and Non-Human Relationships.
After Yang (2021) is a melancholy film, and not only because of the beautiful piano and strings score and dim lighting. The movie forces us to think about Yang and what we make of his life. This concept ties into our discussion about A.I. rights. Rather than worrying about humans losing jobs, the film dives…
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The Implication of Yang
In the article How A24’s After Yang Depicts the Film’s Futuristic Asian Culture Through Fashion, Ariel LeBeau writes, “If every sci-fi film about A.I. is predicated on the question of what it means to be human, After Yang complexifies that inquiry to ask: what does it mean to be Asian?” It’s an interesting yet unescapable…
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Yangs Matter, Too
Besides Colin Farrell looking like a Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend and the dad from Inside Out, the film was as Jack describes his ramen, soothing. This sci-fi-labeled film wasn’t like the others. No scary-looking robots, jarring music as a robot tries to take over a house, nor was it heartwrenching but it was touching and captured…
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Overreading the Future
Upon reading Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman’s work, “Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society,” I’ve become aware of our current “attempts” in preparation for a post-AGI society. It’s an unusual sensation to live in a time when such ideas- about giving rights to “beings” we humans created – are being discussed and contemplated. One can’t…
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An Interesting Proposition
In “Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society,” Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman propose a list of several possible explanations of how AI could serve as a digital mind in society which could carry great benefits and cause major harms. Their proposal is divided into ten sections: consciousness and metaphysics, respecting AI interests, security and stability,…
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Worlds that Don’t Exist
“What’s good for an AI can be very different from what’s good for a human being.” from Propositions for Digital Minds and Society by Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman Reading Propositions for Digital Minds and Societies truly required me to practice Gayatri Spivak’s ‘three yeses’, as outlined in the syllabus. It’s not necessarily that I…
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They Took Our Jerbs!!!/You Cannot Block Me!!!
South Park S21 E1: White People Renovating Houses Bit of background information: Unite the Right Rally: This was a rally organized by white supremacist that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Participants carried racist slogans and weapons with the goal of uniting American white nationalist movement and opposing the removal of statue of Robert…