May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 17 segments
Dr. Tom Williams spoke with us about robots, ethics, teaching, and books. Then we talked about mines, umpires, water, and more books. Tom is the author of Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social…
Yeah, uh, Fresh Cut Grass is a character from, uh, season three of Critical Role, which is a Dungeons & Dragons actual play.
Um, he is a sort of therapist robot with a, with a dark past, uh, that he's discovering and working to overcome.
Uh, it's not my favorite sea- uh, season of Critical Role, but he's my favorite robot character.
Would you rather read A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chalmers or Platform Decay, the latest of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wa- Martha Wells?
Well, I, I just read Psalm for the Wild-Built a couple days ago, and I have not read Platform Decay.
I, I enjoyed Psalm for the Wild-Built, um, but it, it left me lacking a little.
Yeah, uh, Fresh Cut Grass is a character from, uh, season three of Critical Role, which is a Dungeons & Dragons actual play.
Um, he is a sort of therapist robot with a, with a dark past, uh, that he's discovering and working to overcome.
Uh, it's not my favorite sea- uh, season of Critical Role, but he's my favorite robot character.
Would you rather read A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chalmers or Platform Decay, the latest of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wa- Martha Wells?
Well, I, I just read Psalm for the Wild-Built a couple days ago, and I have not read Platform Decay.
I, I enjoyed Psalm for the Wild-Built, um, but it, it left me lacking a little.
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