Seth Villegas
@sethvillegas27
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Host of @digethix podcast. Researcher on transhumanism and tech/ethics.
Boston, MA
Joined January 2015
Thank you so much Paddy and @Ethicstechpod. It was a real honor to chat with you about my research on transhumanism! Hope we can have more conversations like this in the future.
New Episode😊 Defying Death: Transhumanism, Uploading Ourselves, and Religion Here's a snippet from our conversation with @sethvillegas27 @BU_Tweets about the quasi-religious nature of the transhumanists working to escape death
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Well, sometimes if you just upload enough, the file finally gets off your computer. Glad my eyes can rest from staring at all these progress bars...
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If you had an experience that was spiritually meaning while sick with COVID-19, please consider taking this anonymous survey. Research conducted by @MindandCulture and The Religious Experience Research Centre. #covid19 #longcovid #covid #facesofcovid
https://t.co/rMmlfuytgi
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I often get so caught up the tech that I forget to think about the actual in's and out's of the business world. It was a pleasure to be reminded of those things in my conversation with Dr. Rubén Mancha. https://t.co/v4P3SJjcIh
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to imagine a different kind of technology company? Dr. Rubén Mancha makes the case for non-profit technology companies as a way to better serve the community. https://t.co/J17jYs6B5X
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I had a chance to review the Doordash strike from last summer. I remember back when it was hard to get drivers to work at all. No surprise with some of these practices.
Are you a part of the gig economy? What has your experience been like? This past summer, Doordashers went on strike because they were being withheld information about their tips. Full episode here: https://t.co/zf4INTUb8s
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I enjoyed learning about NFTs from @OwlbearFactory. It's a super revolutionary technology and I'm looking forward to seeing just what can be done with it. I'm all for giving artists more control over their work. https://t.co/KBi1S40RLn
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Watching #TransVision. Would have loved to have attended in person
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It was enlightening to sit down with @EmanuelleBurton to talk about how to use science fiction for ethics education. Stories can be really powerful tools for us to explore dilemmas in the human condition.
@sethvillegas27 sits down with @EmanuelleBurton to talk about ethics education for CS students. How do we become the right sort of people to create worthwhile technologies? What ethical skills will be useful for the next generation of technologists? https://t.co/uRUUGtQUsP
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I had a great conversation with Bernd Dürrwächter, talking about the role of bots in our lives. I think one of the biggest issues we face today is we just don't know how these technologies are getting repurposed all the time.
@sethvillegas27 and Bernd Dürrwächter discuss the role of CAPTCHAs and bots in our automated systems and the potential obstacle they pose to people making informed decisions. How should we think about the tradeoffs between security and convenience? #AIEthics #podcastday #privacy
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Super grateful to @Bestavros for the interview! I've had a great experience working with and for @BU_CDS. I'm super excited for all the students who are looking to get involved with data science at BU this year!
We're back! @sethvillegas27 interviews @Bestavros about @BU_CDS, big data, privacy preserving analytics, and the future of data science! #DataScience #BU #podcast #dataethics
https://t.co/D6iCaK2CzH
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped me with the podcast, especially my adviser, @WesleyWildman. I got a ton of support from @MindandCulture. It was really fun going back over things. I did a little recap of what we've done so far. https://t.co/DaKqbdH1Wr
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It was kind of crazy looking into this. I doubt this sort of thing is going to stop anytime soon.
@sethvillegas27 and Bern Dürrwächter review the Pegasus NSO Spyware scandal. There's a longer history here. Extra articles and reports on our website: https://t.co/ycEEpSpRQI
#Pegasus #PegasusSpyware #Spyware #hacker #Ethics #podcast
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Smoke from Canadian forest fires? Reminds me of home in CA I guess...
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I had a chance to interview one of my collaborators, Bernd Dürrwächter, to talk about education and about a bunch of the research we have done together on ethics in the past year.
Episode 8 is live! @sethvillegas27 sits down with Bernd Dürrwächter to talk about problems of ethics education in technology. How can public discussion be used in conjunction with education to better equip the next generation of technologists? https://t.co/Cvrk9fM4bM
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Thank you @aethericlight for inviting onto Imagine Human last week to talk about my research on transhumanism! https://t.co/9Rf7NMRH56
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