As some of you may have already heard, Christalee and I are now married. Hooray!
We got married in Verona, Italy this past week (September 23rd).
We’ll be having a wedding reception in probably about a month. Feel free to shower us with monetary gifts!
For those who don’t know, I’ll be presenting next week at ETHICOMP2008 at the University of Pavia in Mantua (Mantova) Italy.
My paper looks at CFAI and evaluates it as a basis for creating ethical robots. Punchline: CFAI is no good; virtue ethics is better.
I’ll post more about the paper soon.
It is about this time of year that I traditionally start to reflect on my life and where it’s going. It’s the beginning of July, and today is the holiday of “Birthday”, the time of year that we celebrate our coming into the world. The date for the holiday was chosen to logically break up the year, so that gift-giving holidays occur in the Winter and Summer, and consumption holidays occur in the Spring and Fall. This holiday was proposed some years ago by Isaac Schlueter, who coincidentally has his own birthday on the same day.
Isaac recently wrote a post reflecting on his experience as a programmer and the difficulty of becoming an expert. Apparently, it takes about 10,000 hours of practice to master anything.