Roboexotica Symposium

1 P.M. - 6 P.M.: Symposium

Sean Bonner: The inmates have taken over the asylum…
but that’s OK because as it turns out they are far more
entertaining than all those stuffy doctors.

Jens Ohlig: Monkeys, typewriters, and the Markov chain reaction.
Programming machines to write literature so humans don’t have to.

Cory Doctorow: A Singular Metaphor
Why consciousness uploading, post-human existence,
and life after the Singularity are popular today,
and why science fiction is always about the present.

David Fine: The Consciousness Conundrum.

Bre Pettis: Machines: If you can’t beat them, join them
The Apocalyptic Utopia.