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What feels like many internets ago, a favorite “get a load of this!” past time of mine was pulling up articles from the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics with titles like “Sex with corpses might be philosophically cool. But it’s still not a good idea” (which I don’t even disagree with, but, come on) and “Enhanced punishment: can technology make life sentences longer?” and, more recently, “The Ethics of Gently Electrifying Prisoners’ Brains.”

I sort of regret this now. Not because the articles aren’t funny (they are), or because I think it’s wrong to privately make fun of whatever they’re doing over there (it’s not), but because the future was not something where philosophers explored bizarre or repulsive scenarios for professional reasons and every once in a while I read these pieces for my own amusement, but where people log on and do the equivalent every day, for no reason. There is an entire twitter account that mostly runs polls that are offensive questions, including abou…