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Bookmark How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history |…
Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

April 25 2023, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker
“What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists –…
Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
Bookmark BBC - Future - How Western civilisation could collapse
The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth.

April 24 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Collective Intelligence of Women Could Save the World - Future of…
Neil deGrasse Tyson was once asked about his thoughts on the cosmos. In a slow, gloomy voice, he intoned, “The universe is a deadly place. At every opportunity, it’s trying to…

December 9 2016, 11:21am | Comments
Bookmark Does climate change make it immoral to have kids? | Dave Bry…
Bringing children into a disintegrating environment used to be a theoretical fear. Now it’s a very real one The decision whether or not to have a child is one of the…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist | Motherboard
Really, really racist. The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft had fallen far…

March 31 2016, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark The end of progress | New Philosopher
David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by Zan Boag, editor of New Philosopher. Zan Boag: Contemporary society places…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

April 29 2015, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark 12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World
As history has repeatedly shown, political systems come and go. Given our rapid technological and social advances, it's a trend we can expect to continue. Here are 12 extraordinary — and…

January 22 2015, 12:55am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments
Bookmark 'Bigfoot DNA' Study Seeks Yeti Rights : Discovery News
A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic testing, but also that the mysterious monster…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs
In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark Foucault - Remarks on Marx
Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994

August 25 2012, 2:43am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Time-wars’ by Mark Fisher
Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of 25, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given…

August 14 2012, 3:41am | Comments
Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron
The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses
Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark The idea of following in the age of Twitter
With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because other…

May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments
Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people
Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments
Bookmark Inheriting The Hoard
“I knew as a kid I’d have to take care of it. I had prepared myself for it – for this moment,” Greg M., 41, says rather stoically of the overwhelming…

May 4 2012, 4:36am | Comments
Bookmark The social cell
A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments
Bookmark Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
RICH AND SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about…

April 21 2012, 5:37am | Comments
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Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
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Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments
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Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise

March 13 2012, 4:20am | Comments
Bookmark The God wars
Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments
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The God gap

January 28 2012, 10:35am | Comments
Bookmark Kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human
With children so easy to embrace robotics, it’s clear that there’s a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of “exploring and creating” sounds a…

January 19 2012, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark On Science Transfer
“Faster.” Could any other word better capture the reigning paradox of our age? The world today—whether measured in technological or ecological terms—appears to be changing more rapidly than ever before. Our…

September 29 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia
Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark Our Emergent Digital Future
What will the digital world look like in ten years? The trends are already clear. Capacities in bandwidth and storage will continue on their exponential path. The explosion in the volume…

August 14 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents
These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments

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