Episode 98 Ethics: Content vs Creator
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
New York State of Mind – song by Billy Joel: https://www.youtu.be/LnGMcxWmtRA
“An intelligent guard…” - Quote from Titan A.E. (movie, 2000): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120913/characters/nm0001447
CERN – Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire – The European Organisation for Nuclear Research – maintains six particle accelerators, including the high-energy Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest piece of machinery, near Geneva, Switzerland: https://home.cern/
Twenty Past the Hour – A phenomenon popularly associated with, among other claimed causes, the alleged time of death of President Lincoln: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sudden-silences/
Cognitive Bias – Any of a number of perceptional errors that occur due to the tendency of the Human mind to look for patterns and focus more reliably on expected or predicted events than those that don’t conform to expectations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
The Trolley Problem – A thought experiment in the study of ethics: https://theconversation.com/the-trolley-dilemma-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-five-57111
Bombs on the Ferries – The Dark Knight (movie, 2008): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
The Prisoner’s Dilemma - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/
Content Versus Creator – Video essayist Lindsay Ellis produced two videos addressing the concept of “Death of the Author”, which is the idea that, once a work is released to the public, the author no longer has any authority over its meaning or interpretation. Lindsay subsequently created a follow-up video addressing the different but related question of whether a troublesome creator can truly be separated from their work: https://youtu.be/NViZYL-U8s0
Lindsay created the above video in relation to the JK Rowling Transgender Comments Controversy, as broken down here by, and from the view of, Glamour: https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy
The Ship of Theseus – an ancient thought experiment that asks whether and for how long a thing (in the case of the experiment, a ship) remains the same item if all its component parts are progressively replaced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Graham Linehan – co-writer of TV series Father Ted and dedicated social media campaigner against transgender people: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Graham_Linehan
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