Phrase of the day:
"Orthopraxic robots"
Robots are being in used in religious rituals worldwide -- often because they're extremely reliable and precise, useful in traditions and rituals that prize proper execution ("orthopraxic")
The anthropologist Holly Waters wonders: What does it mean if robots can be better at religious observances than we humans are?
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Linkfest #8: Orthopraxic robots, "floatovoltaics", and why ancient painters drew impossible shadows
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