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Are we one step closer to colonizing Mars? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Bots are designed by people, and therefore reflect the disproportionate gender representation in the tech industry, where women continue to form a minority in discussions on development and design.

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Love stems from the religious impulse to merge with the great beyond.

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Using the oppression of robots as a metaphor for the oppression of people is an old, old science fiction trope.

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Humans, in a lot of ways, have been reduced to this same kind of simple behavior. There is nothing to distinguish how AI acts and how we act.

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1974 book The Production of Space argues against the concept of empty or geometric space and in favor of social space. He was a committed Marxist and his idea that space is never truly empty but always filled in or mediated is perhaps just a philosophical refinement of the argument against neutrality or objectivity.