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Who’s afraid of the AI Boogeyman?

Bert Olivier -
It is becoming ever more obvious that many people fear rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI), for various reasons, such as its supposed superiority, compared...

Preference falsification and cascade

Jeffrey A. Tucker -
Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen posted the following: “We are living through the most dramatic preference cascade of my life. Every day I am hearing...

Schopenhauer: Humanity’s fall to irrationality

Bert Olivier -
In the third section of The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche quotes the ancient tragedian, Sophocles, where...

The Boy Who Trapped Death in a Nut

Hayley Kynefin -
There is a Scottish folk tale that provides an apt metaphor for the ethical-philosophical problem of the Covid era. It is called “Death in a...

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