Category: Essays
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Term Paper: Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
PHIL 828 Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Term Paper Any attempt to regulate artificial intelligence is fundamentally a futile exercise. If we are doing it to make ourselves feel like we did something, then fine; regulating AI would be an effective coping mechanism. It wouldn’t be an effective way of preventing any of the things…
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Phenomenal Consciousness: Between the Lines of Experience and Representation
Here is an essay I wrote for the following prompt in a class on the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence… Please write a 500 words comment explaining your views about the relation between experiencing and representing a content. To keep things manageable, please focus on color or pain. The relevant examples from the book are…
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All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive.
All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive. The entire San Joaquin valley was a lake until very recently; Lake Corcoran was one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. (Wong) It was fed with rainfall from the sea, and its evaporation created a cycle of precipitation which fed both sides of the…
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The Black Box That Reflects Its Maker
CJ Trowbridge PHIL 335 – Law and Society 2021-11-17 The Black Box That Reflects Its Maker “As we look behind the closed door of law’s room and into its fi ling cabinets, we fi nd secrets that unmask the public persona of the room’s occupant. It’s not simple or straightforward though. Along the way, we…
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On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics
CJ Trowbridge 2021-10-18 AIS 440 Week 8 Literature Review: On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics Choose 2 of the lectures from the first 7 weeks of class and write a minimum 2 page response by answering the following questions: 1. What was the main topic of the lectures? 2. What did you learn from the lectures?…
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Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People 2021-09-28 Prompt: Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are necessary to rewrite this area of colonial and settler analysis. This response needs to be a minimum of…
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Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer I was struck by the following quote from the Barbara May Cameron article, “Cameron’s refusal to be queer in one corner of her life, and native in another, is as radical and transformative now, as it was then.…
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Collective Ownership is Key
CJ Trowbridge 2021-07-03 USP 560 – Urban Poverty Final I have spent a lot of time this year traveling to radically sustainable experimental communities across the country and asking countless questions about infrastructure, ownership models, and governance models and now I’d like to propose a solution to urban poverty. The Community Development Corporation model…
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Seize Housing Now
CJ Trowbridge 2021-07-02 USP 580 Housing Policy & Planning Term Paper The solution to the housing problem in San Francisco (And beyond) is the Community Development Corporation model, and the newly created arts districts are the perfect lever to make that happen. I spent much of the pandemic meeting with the boards of the arts…
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Urban poverty is Not an Accident
CJ Trowbridge 2021-06-30 USP 560 Urban Poverty Term Paper It’s no mistake that there has never been a capitalist city without poverty. In his essay, “The Urban Process Under Capitalism,” David Harvey explains that cities are a process, not a place. Cities under capitalism – by definition – serve to extract labor and resources from…