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Eric Shepperd

Impossibly Cute Kittens and Weaponized Aww

Warning: this impossibly cute kitten is a weapon of psychological warfare!

Feb 24

Impossibly Cute Kittens and Weaponized Aww

Feb 24

Eric Shepperd

Coding Our Future: Navigating the Ethical Terrain of AI Decision-Making through Foucault…

By using tree-of-thought (ToT) prompting techniques and providing guidance as a teaching assistant, I’ve helped ChatGPT write a…

Jun 18, 2023

Coding Our Future: Navigating the Ethical Terrain of AI Decision-Making through Foucault…

Jun 18, 2023

Eric Shepperd

Dreaming Differently: Psychedelic Meaning-Making

The world makes little sense in this strange age. Despite technological wonders meant to connect, we struggle to communicate. Although…

May 20, 2023

Dreaming Differently: Psychedelic Meaning-Making

May 20, 2023

Eric Shepperd

Talking With AI About AI — a GPT-4 Experiment

I asked GPT-4 to imagine the conversation at an AI art exhibition, and invited some clever virtual people — it went surprisingly well.

Mar 24, 2023

Talking With AI About AI — a GPT-4 Experiment

Mar 24, 2023

Eric Shepperd

Politics Has No Meaning

What’s really disheartening about contemporary politics is how formerly-useful words have lost all meaning, transforming reasoned discourse…

Nov 4, 2022

Nov 4, 2022

Eric Shepperd

Don’t Fight Anti-Vaxxers; Socially Exclude Them

From this point on, I will no longer be participating in any conflict about vaccines. It just makes things worse.

Oct 5, 2021

Don’t Fight Anti-Vaxxers; Socially Exclude Them

Oct 5, 2021

Eric Shepperd

Our electoral system sucks. Use it anyway.

As you might know, each election day I walk the streets of London with a sign that says "VOTE". You might not know I’m also a far-Left…

Sep 20, 2021

Sep 20, 2021

Eric Shepperd

The People’s Party of Canada: How a Desire for Freedom Leads to Fascism

The “People’s Party” uses big-tent libertarianism to drag people Rightward — seducing well-meaning anti-authoritarians into fascist beliefs

Sep 17, 2021

The People’s Party of Canada: How a Desire for Freedom Leads to Fascism

Sep 17, 2021

Eric Shepperd

Star Trek: Discovery — Forced Feelings Fall Flat

As a lifelong Trekkie, I really wanted to like Discovery. It has its bright points — an extremely diverse cast, a novel concept, and…

Jan 9, 2021

Star Trek: Discovery — Forced Feelings Fall Flat

Jan 9, 2021

Eric Shepperd

Escape Velocity

This long-form essay answers two interrelated questions: “why is capitalism?” and “how did it get so bad?” using a new reading of Marx.

Jan 8, 2020

Escape Velocity

Jan 8, 2020

Eric Shepperd

Eric Shepperd

Social theorist and activist interested in psychedelic phenomenology as a vehicle for social change in the face of the global environmental crisis.

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