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Bibliography of Personality Prediction Methods

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1.      Jennifer Golbeck, Cristina Robles, and Karen Turner, “Predicting Personality with Social Media,” in CHI ’11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA ’11 (New York: ACM, 2011), 253–62, https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979614 . 2.      Jennifer Golbeck, Cristina Robles, Michon Edmondson, and Karen Turner, “Predicting Personality from Twitter,” in 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing (PASSAT-SocialCom 2011), ed. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Computer Society (Boston: IEEE, 2011). 3.      Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel, “Private Traits and Attributes Are Predictable from Digital Records of Human Behavior,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110, no. 15 (2013): 5802–5. 4.      G. Park et al., “Automatic Personality Assessment Through Social Media Language,” Jou
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Recent Articles by Boyd Collins

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Recent Articles by Boyd Collins Aristotle’s Solution to Digital Addiction : How can leisure activities free us from digital dependency? Aristotle's concept of leisure suggests that our life experiences are to be savored for their own sake. In other words, we work for the sake of leisure, not the other way around. By righting our values in this way, the path to inner freedom is opened. How to Free Your Mind from Attentional Serfdom : How can we cultivate our memory in order to open our minds to new insights? Defending Our Capacity for Attention and Empathy : How can we create flourishing human relationships? Self-Driving Cars and the Automation of Consent : Given how user data-driven platforms now work, how might a data-driven self-driving car network reshape its human passengers? You can keep up with all of my Medium articles here: https://medium.com/@boycster Uncaging the Senses (requires a subscription to New View, an anthroposophic journal published in the UK, but I can
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Footprints of the Spirit

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According to Ray Kurzweil, the most important question we must ask ourselves today is “Will artificial intelligence enable the third stage of life?” According to MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” Life 1.0 is represented by bacteria “… where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed.” (Tegmark, 2017) . Life 2.0 is “… life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed.” (Ibid.) – in other words, human life. Humanity represents an evolutionary leap that allows us to devise the algorithms used to process sense-based data. In this phase, we are mind-evolving creatures. But there is a final upgrade that must be installed to make us perfect: Life 3.0. In this phase we design not only our software but our hardware too. With this capacity, we ascend to total mastery of our destiny, finally free from the shackles left over from non-technological evolution. This new form of life can no longer be considered huma
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The Myth of the Hackable Human

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One of the most widely cited prophets of the transhumanist future is Yuval Noah Harari. His works have been enthusiastically recommended by Bill Gates, Emmanuel Macron, Barack Obama, and many other leading opinion makers. In a recent article in the Guardian (Harari, 2018), Dr. Harari tells us that after a fierce struggle with his innate liberalism he has concluded that continued belief in human free will has become too dangerous to entertain any longer. In my opinion, the piece is a masterful example of manipulative framing. Its purpose is to convince the reader to surrender his will, free or otherwise, to the inevitable triumph of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). This article seeks to unpack Harari’s rhetorical seductions and deconstruct the truths they contain. By the end, we will see that Harari’s prophecy has less to do with technology than with an anti-human ideology which he sees as the destined successor to the dying liberalism he celebrates and eulogizes. He frames th
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