School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Sojourner intimacies: Chinese international students negotiating dating in Sydney
Published 2018-01-01Despite being a large community of sojourners making up 30% of the total international student population in Australia (End of Year Summary of International Student Enrolment Data, 2017), Chinese international students’ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Rocky shores, mud, and mangroves: An assessment of economic intensification at the Yindayin rockshelter, Stanley Island
Published 2018-01-01Economic intensification is a prominent concept in hunter-gatherer literature, being used to explain increasing hunter-gatherer complexity and the transition to domestication and permanent settlement. This study used ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Moral Status of Whole Brain Emulations
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Artificial Intelligence is going to radically change our world; the only real question is by how much. A number of prominent figures believe that current AI ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Adaptive Preference Formation & Autonomy: Moving towards Respect
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): This thesis seeks to primarily answer the following question: are adapted preferences autonomous? In pursuing the answer of this question, I am unsurprisingly ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Can we Build a Superintelligence Without Being Superintelligent?
Published 2017-01-01If we create an entity of greater intelligence to us, a superintelligence, it has the possibility to explode in intelligence, creating more and more intelligent entities. If the intelligence explosion argument holds, then ...Open AccessThesis, Honours