{"id":105329,"date":"2016-12-01T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105329"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:06:58","slug":"robots-are-superior-buddhists-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/robots-are-superior-buddhists-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Are Superior Buddhists, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105331\" style=\"width: 1484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scrobot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105331\" class=\"wp-image-105331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scrobot.jpg\" width=\"1474\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scrobot.jpg 1474w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scrobot-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scrobot-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/scrobot-1024x550.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That\u2019s a good robot.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whenever someone asks me how I\u2019m doing, I say, Good! The robots haven\u2019t eradicated me or my species yet! I\u2019ve been going on this way my whole adult life\u2014but now Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist who studies tech, has convinced me that my real fear isn\u2019t the robots. It\u2019s staring right back at me when I look in the mirror. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/nov\/27\/genevieve-bell-ai-robotics-anthropologist-robots?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">Western culture has some anxieties about what happens when humans try to bring something to life<\/a> \u2026 What we are seeing now isn\u2019t an anxiety about artificial intelligence per se, it\u2019s about what it says about us. That if you can make something like us, where does it leave us? And that concern isn\u2019t universal, as other cultures have very different responses to AI, to big data. The most obvious one to me would be the Japanese robotic tradition, where people are willing to imagine the role of robots as far more expansive than you find in the West. For example, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori published a book called <em>The Buddha in the Robot<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>where he suggests that robots would be better Buddhists than humans because they are capable of infinite invocations \u2026 Mori\u2019s argument was that we project our own anxieties and when we ask: \u2018Will the robots kill us?\u2019 what we are really asking is: \u2018Will we kill us?\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The CIA tried for years to assassinate Castro\u2014with a poison pen, an exploding underwater seashell (I\u2019m not making this shit up), and a cigar tainted with botulism. It was only fair that the<em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em> began drafting his obit in 1959: for a minute there it seemed as if he was not long for this world. Now the<em> Times<\/em> remembers its many false alarms: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/11\/29\/insider\/fidel-castros-obituary.html?mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">The development of the Castro obituary is as legendary as the man himself<\/a>. Countless colleagues\u2014spanning many different technologies and platforms\u2014have massaged it and passed the baton. Each of the many death scares gave us the opportunity to dust off the package and reassess our digital strategy based on ever-changing audience consumption habits and storytelling tools.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s no fun being bored, but a life without boredom would be a meaningless slog of bland activity, Andreas Elpidorou argues: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/life-without-boredom-would-be-a-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\">The negative and aversive experience of boredom motivates us\u2014one might even say, pushes us\u2014to pursue a different situation, one that seems more meaningful or interesting<\/a> \u2026 Even our perception of the passage of time is altered. In a state of boredom, it appears to drag. We want to escape from boredom\u2019s unpleasant grip. When the tasks with which we are currently engaged have lost their luster, boredom promotes the pursuit of alternative goals\u00a0<em>by its very character<\/em>.\u201d (This conception of boredom presumes that the bored person takes action to de-borify his life, rather than doing what I do, which is just to sit there saying \u201cI\u2019m booooooored!\u201d over and over again.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As the Trump Bummer (Trummer?) continues apace and fascism proliferates from coast to coast, where can a poetry reader turn for solace? Stephen Burt thinks you could do a lot worse than Yeats: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/literature-culture-poetry\/stephen-burt-reading-yeats-age-trump\" target=\"_blank\">No other poet has captured so well the feeling of noble failure<\/a>\u2014of having lost an unfair fight\u2014along with the feeling of conflict between serving a very flawed nation and serving the ideals embodied in art. Yeats wrote in defense of institutions, historical memory, and gradual change. He also wrote in defense of ideals, against a pragmatism so total that it toppled into defeatism \u2026 I am rereading him now not only for those laudable goals, but also for his own strenuous, chastened, even tormented ambivalence toward those goals, for his divided mind.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rob Arcand argues that we need a new kind of protest music, one predicated on noise and abrasion rather than on unwashed folk poets with acoustic guitars. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reallifemag.com\/sonic-youth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protest music must build movements around the technological possibilities of global resistance<\/a>\u2014and across the world, new modes of electronic music have begun to do just that. Pushing the aesthetic boundaries that have long guided both dance music and R&amp;B, artists like Lotic, Arca, and Chino Amobi have spent the last few years revealing new capacities for activism as much rooted in speculative digital technologies as in grassroots assembly. Leveraging \u2018noise-sound\u2019 as an expressive tool of dissent, such artists have flipped music\u2019s most fundamental elements, pulling the violence of modern warfare into loaded audio weapons with sights set on larger reform.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Whenever someone asks me how I\u2019m doing, I say, Good! The robots haven\u2019t eradicated me or my species yet! I\u2019ve been going on this way my whole adult life\u2014but now Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist who studies tech, has convinced me that my real fear isn\u2019t the robots. It\u2019s staring right back at me when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7009,1980,14631,567,13075,11989,25969,7611,8928],"class_list":["post-105329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-anxiety","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-boredom","tag-fidel-castro","tag-noise","tag-obituaries","tag-protest-music","tag-robots","tag-w-b-yeats"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t Fear the Robots: Fear Yourselves.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An anthropologist argues that our anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence are really fears about humankind.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/robots-are-superior-buddhists-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robots Are Superior Buddhists, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"December 1, 2016 \u2013 &nbsp;Whenever someone asks me how I\u2019m doing, I say, Good! 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