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Evolving the Luftmensch
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Building better handles
What does empowerment really mean?
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Aching muscles, aching minds
A defense of meaningful work in a world that dreams of automating it away
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What resists measure
What is lost when we flatten human worth to our intelligence?
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The persistence of memory
What happens to our minds when machines no longer forget?
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Deus ex machina
Freedom and its discontents
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Intimations of immortality
Meditations on a WALL-E future
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Ecologies of care
Reimagining relations beyond domination and subjugation
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Custodian of human enchantment
On AI and the human good — and what I'm working on
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Do something that won’t compute
On Wendell Berry and true liberation
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Investigating how humans can live fully and freely in an age of intelligent machines.

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