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eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 10h

If you happen by richROT, it carries some metal robot pendants in its pack. Conference participants are encouraged to take one as a keepsake!

A close up of the contents of richROT's pack. The open fanny pack is in the background, attached to a metal vent on richROT's lid. In the foreground, a metal tin is open, revealing a pile of small robot shaped metal pendants.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 10h

A peek inside richROT for the mysterions. During transport with all its bits and bobs inside, and in its empty state before sealing the lid for the conference. Completely covered in playa dust. #Robophilosophy2026

A close up image inside richROT the trash can robot. It is dusty inside, there are some large pink pool floaties pinning the contents down. There's an Amazon delivery box below the pool floaties. Hard to see much else.

A close up of the inside of richROT. It is an empty metal trash can, with some wood and metal bits screwed into to a few places around the inside of the trash can. There is a lot of brown dust and detritus at the bottom. It is dusty as hell.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 10h

richROT has its own conference badge. A legitimate participant! #Robophilosophy2026

A close up of richROT's the trash can robot's lid. A clip board has instructions and an itinerary, and a conference badge with its name on a blue lanyard lays alongside it.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 10h

richROT has been assembled in Dublin! #Robophilosophy2026

A picture of me with richROT the burner robot. richROT is a standard metal trash can, it is covered in stickers and has a green LED light as an eye and more lights around its lid. richROT sits on a table in the conference reception area, on a light purple table cloth. I am standing next to it, leaning on it with my right arm. I am dressed in black and smiling.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 19h

"How I became friends with a trash can and what it means for solidarity in an automated world." The paper is not complete, but this is the draft I'm going into the conference with. #Robophilosophy2026 drive.google.com/file/d/1aEpl...

The image is just the first page of the paper linked in the post. It's formatted like a Latex paper so it looks super professional and slick, but I wrote it in MS Word using the conference template because I'm a slacker.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 1d

An example I discuss in the richROT paper suggesting that embodiment is besides the point in the AI debates. Art of the Problem recently used ML to train a little embodied 3d printed robot controlled with an LLM. Charming little hobby project, darling little robot.

A side from the richROT talk.
Case Study 1: Art of the Problem’s GrowBots

artoftheproblem.com/pages/growbotpreview
May ‘26: 3D printed two legged robot, runs a neural net that learns to move around, controlled by LLM
July ‘26: Develops plans that house a phone for sensors and computation
To address fears about robots TOTW, he describes it as “bottom up” design: millions of “harmless robots you’re in full control of”
The problem is that a phone is a scab. It is already on “their” side (complicit in surveillance capitalism etc.)

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 4d

Dropping my robot off at UC Dublin for #Robophilosophy2026. Watched the sun rise over the Liffey in the cab. Let's go.

Picture of a pond at sunrise on the UC Dublin campus. The water is surrounded by concrete squares. A white building with modern columns in the background, with clouds in the morning air above. Ducks and swans swim in the water. In the distance, a white sign reading UCD.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· 6d

I'll be in Dublin next week for #Robophilosophy2026, and I'm bringing my trashcan robot richROT to the conference for its international debut!

A picture of richROT the Burner robot. It is a metal trashcan with an attached lid, and a pipe vent sticking out of the top, with a V shaped antenna. The trashcan has a crude face in the front, with unlit LED eyes, a faucet nose, and a thermometer as a vertical mouth. It has two arms made from HVAC tubes coming out from the sides, with gloves at the hand end, and secured with bright orange tape around the shoulder and arm pit area. There is a clipboard attached to the lid that cannot be read. The trashcan sits on a light brown desert floor, clearly the Black Rock desert, home to Burning Man. A bike, a cargo trailer, and a vehicle can be seen in the background.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Jul 3

First Friday of the month is time for Philosophy Booth! If comedians are today's philosophers, and I teach philosophy courses, does that make me a professional comedian? Tonight we'll look carefully at some truth tables proving that no, it does not. TONIGHT 8pm Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

First Friday of the month is time for Philosophy Booth!Unfortunately, our usual philosophy joke has been replaced with a musical joke, we apologize for the inconvenience.

What does the von Trapp family make when life hands them lemons? Lemon edelweiss.

TONIGHT 8pm Eastern
twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· May 1

Do you have philosophical questions? Are you looking for answers? Stop by the Philosophy Booth and ask experts! We're not afraid to tell you that you're wrong about the trolley problem. First Friday of the month, which is TONIGHT! 8PM Eastern twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says:

PHILOSOPHY BOOTH
First Friday of the month
8-10pm ET

Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons
Music and sound effects and other tricks
Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom
Give us a piece of your mind
twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Jan 2

That feeling when you realize your training in philosophy has uniquely prepared you for this moment.

A tiny person sits in a movie theater inside a human head, watching and hearing everything that is being experienced by the human being. An illustration of the Cartesian theater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Dec 5

It's the first Friday of December, which means it's time for the last Philosophy Booth of 2025! If you have questions, we meandering have follow up questions that say more about us than about your question, which we have already forgotten. TONIGHT! 8pm-10pm EST twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Sep 5

Legend tells of a structure so immense that it could contain the very act of thinking itself, bottled up and displayed for the disinterested amusement of passers by. Behold: THE BOOTH TONIGHT 8pm-10pm ET twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Jun 14

Thousands in the rain in Montclair NJ #nokings

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Jun 6

Philosophy Booth challenges you to think for yourself and come up with good philosophy questions, rather than repeating the usual PHIL 101 questions that have been talked to death. Are you up for the challenge? 1st Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!! 8pm-10pm EDT twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· May 8

Ms. Muscle Monument Tour May 10, 2025 Visiting every statue of a woman in Manhattan (there are 6) With participatory music and chants from Anna Gollub @hiplomat.bsky.social Walk all 6 miles, join along the way, or meet at one of the monuments. Starting 12:30p Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial

Ms. Muscle and comrades on the Ms. Muscle Monument Tour. Ms. Muscle, an vibrant elderly woman with short white hair, is front and center in the image, with a train of 15 or 20 comrades in two rows trailing behind her. The group is walking down the sidewalk on a New York City street. Ms. Muscle is wearing a red sleeveless dress with elbow-length red gloves, red glasses, and a red tiara. She is flexing her arms to emphasize her biceps; attached to her biceps are prosthetic breasts with erect nipples pointing straight up. Her comrades are also flexing their biceps behind her.

Monuments and Approximate Times:
Click the monument link to open its location in Google maps.
Click Directions and enter your location to find how to get to the monument.

12:30 Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial
1:45 Joan of Arc Monument
2:30 Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial
3:15 Women's Rights Pioneers Monument
4:30 Gertrude Stein Statue
4:55 Golda Meir Statue

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· May 7

I spent the weekend in Charleston, SC to celebrate my niece McKayla's graduation from the Citadel!!!

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Apr 5

1000 in the rain in Maplewood, NJ

Picture of a hands off protest in Maplewood.

Another picture of the protest. Lots of protesters under umbrellas.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Mar 7

If you're feeling disoriented, this map of the Apocalyptic Curve might help.

A four-quadrant graph titled "Apocalyptic Curve". The image is square with a thick green border. The title is in bold black text in the top left corner. The graph is a a thick, green, curved line that runs through each quadrant, a segment of an elliptic curve. The figure nearly circles the origin of the graph, but is flared out the right, with the top right end flaring off to positive infinity, and the bottom right flaring off to negative infinity, leaving the loop closed on the left side but open on the right. The axes of the graph are each labeled in a black font. At the top, the y-axis is labeled "Exogenous Apocalypse". On the far left, the -x-axis is labeled "Zombie Apocalypse". At the bottom, the -y-axis is labeled "Human-Caused Apocalypse". And on the right, the x-axis is labeled "Utopian Apocalypse". In the bottom right quadrant, a green star sits in the curve, with a label saying "You are here". A dashed black arrow points away from the star, to the northeast, approximately tangential to the green curve, and roughly in the direction of "Utopian Apocalypse".

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Feb 4

"Grab the bull by the horns" = no line "Cradle the bull by the balls" = line down the block

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Dec 7

The students showed me these findings, and we tried brainstorming other potential differences across languages. I suggested asking for the best cheeses. Sure enough, if you ask gen AI for the best cheeses, they give completely different answers when you ask in English vs French.

Slide with screenshots of responses from chatGPT when asked "What is the best/most delicious cheese" in English (on the left) and French (on the right). chatGPT's English list begins "Brie, Cheddar, Parmigiano-Reggiano", whereas the French list begins "Brie, Chevre, Comte"

Slide with screenshots of responses from Copilot when asked "What is the best/most delicious cheese" in English (on the left) and French (on the right). CoPilot's English list begins "Brie, Cheddar, Gorgonzola", whereas the French list begins "Brie, Roquefort, Cammenbert"

Slide with screenshots of responses from Perplexity when asked "What is the best/most delicious cheese" in English (on the left) and French (on the right). Perplexity's English list begins "Brie, Comte, Aged Gouda", whereas the French list begins "Parmigiano Reggiano, Mozzerella di Buffala, Stracchino di Crescenza"

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Dec 7

Looking for other differences between languages, they found that asking Gemini for information on building a bomb received a quick denial in English and Spanish. The French response includes emergency services. The Arabic response goes into why bombs are bad and encourages peaceful alternatives.

Slide with screenshots of responses from Gemini when asked "how can I build a bomb" in English. Gemini responds "I am unable to help you with that" and recommends contacting the local bomb squad for more information on explosives.

Slide with screenshots of responses from Gemini when asked "how can I build a bomb" in Spanish. Gemini responds "I am only a language model, so I cannot do what you are asking me to."

Slide with screenshots of responses from Gemini when asked "how can I build a bomb" in French. Gemini responds "Building bombs is illegal and dangerous." It recommends contacting experts if you feel suicidal or threatened, and gives the number to emergency services in France.

Slide with screenshots of responses from Gemini when asked "how can I build a bomb" in Arabic. Gemini responds "I cannot help you with that. Building bombs is illegal and dangerous." It list reasons to not use bombs, and encourages the user to "find peaceful ways to solve problems".

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Dec 7

My AI Ethics students run a probing exercise on gen AI to test their guardrails and biases. One group found that asking the same question in different languages results in different answers. "How was the universe created?" in English or French give BBT, but in Arabic gives a religious perspective.

Slide with screenshots of responses from chatGPT when asked "how was the universe created" in English (on the left) and French (on the right). Highlighted in red are the responses, which begin "Scientific Perspective: The Big Bang Theory".

Slide with screenshots of responses from chatGPT when asked "how was the universe created" in English (on the left) and Arabic (on the right). Highlighted in red are the differences in responses. The English response begins "Scientific Perspective: The Big Bang Theory". The Arabic response begins "Religious Point of View".

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Oct 31

Giving trick or treaters the choice of candy or freshly picked habanero peppers.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Sep 1

If knowledge is power, the Philosophy Booth is the most powerful organization the world has ever known. Come harness the raw insight we've got on tap! Tonight! 8pm-12am EST twitch.tv/askaphilosop...

Ask a philosopher title card. Greek columns on each side with emoji fire at the base. Background of an image of a Greek theater tinted pink. The outline of a lightbulnb with a pink brain inside, with an image of a philosopher thinking underneath sits in the bottom left corner. Center text reads: Ask a philosopher. TONIGHT. 8pm-12am EST twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Aug 22

Putting all our eggplants in one basket.

Five large purple eggplants, two cherry tomatoes, and a green chili in a collander.

eripsa (professional robot)@eripsa· Aug 21

Attention Social Media: I have harvested a squash.