Maximum Fun
25 August 2022
How do animals sense magnetic fields? Why was the first Trolley Problem written? And who was Hitchbot? Images we talk about: - Hitchbot with Santa Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: the first compasses, captain McDonalds, “epistemologically unacceptable”, magnetic bacteria, magnetic dip, pooping north, the table of good boys, let’s do a study, it’s more intersting that dogs Sometimes poop north, alignment during excretion, I’d rather study dogs than leopards, we don’t know how animals sense magnetism, the beaks of birds the brains of seaturtles the tummies of honeybes and the nasal passages of rainbowtrouts, four years from landing on the moon and we haven’t put a magnet on a bird yet, quantumn eyeballs, the European Robin is famously racist, Phillipa Foot, putting hypotheticals to the test, mice actors, hypotheticals don’t predict real behavior, Foot’s paper was about abortion, you know the hippocratic oath is pretty cool actually, do no harm is not in the oath, the self driving trolley problem, dogs vs cats, ethics boards on hypotheticals, the real car trolley problem is more nuanced, a robot with a thumb, Ella beats Tom to the joke, can robots trust humans, hitchbot meets santa, hitchbot loves Ten Bundy, have you seen this robot? how do we feel when a robot dies, so thoughtful of review corner to be at the end, and… some exciting news??? Sources: Myths in Magnetosensation Magnetic Bacteria Aviation Skybrary on Magnetic Dip Dogs Poop North Leopards Poop North The Arctic Tern's Migration Magnetoreception remains a Mystery Finding the Magnetoreception Organ Quantumn Eyeballs --- The First Trolley Problem Britannica on the Trolley Problem Of Mice, Men, and Trolleys: Hypothetical Judgment Versus Real-Life Behavior in Trolley-Style Moral Dilemmas Medical Ethics and the Trolley Problem Self-driving Car Trolley Problem MIT's Moral Machine Experiment --- Web Archive of hitchBOT's Website The Vessel on hitchBOT Servo Mag on hitchBOT Innovation Heroes Podcast: The Hitchhiking Robot’s Guide to the Universe DW The hitchhiking robot's guide to Germany McMaster University hitchBOT in the Netherlands International Journal of Social Robotics Smith and Zeller the death and lives of hitchBOT Fraser et al How do we feel when a robot dies?hitchBOT’s destruction
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