Is Christianity the Best Religion for an AI Sim World?
A game developer makes the caseBeing a game developer renders Virk vulnerable to missing the parts of Christianity that don’t feel like a game at all.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 17
I’m ambivalent about Han Solo’s death
At COSM: AI Developer Predicts Jobs Boom — for Humans
Elon Musk thinks AI will produce mass unemployment. Chatbot developer Andrew Mayne predicts a jobs boom instead. Who's right?
Sally Rooney, Censorship, and the Purpose of True Art
Should art go beyond politics?
Concern Rises Over AI’s Hacking Incidents
Can AI really go off and "do its own thing"?
The Curse of ‘…Isms’ and the Woke Mind Virus
The Woke pest has more empathy for strangers (‘the other’) than for loyal friends or family members
A Philosopher Looks At the Roots of Modern Panpsychism
I’ve argued for years that panpsychism — the belief that everything is conscious — is slowly replacing materialism in science. There’s a logical reason for that
Will a Blanket Digital World Make Us Feel Metaphorically Naked?
It’s hard these days to get into a conversation without AI or DC being mentioned
AI Futurist — Who Abruptly Quit OpenAI — Will Speak at COSM
For most of his career there, Josh Achiam had been a safety officer. He is one of a number of personnel involved in sensitive issues who have left
Monday Microsofty 100: How To Win at Poker All the Time
Choose any hand you want and I will still win. But why?
Winchester College drops laptops for pen and paper
The pen and paper are mightier than the keyboard
Longtermism: The Rise and Near Collapse of a Valley Philosophy
Valley philosophies may be more influential than we think, especially if we do not even know about them
Canada Backs Off Euthanasia for Mental Illness, Targets Dementia
The government is now promoting euthanasia for people with dementia
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 16
The entire Resistance remains on the base, it doesn’t even attempt an evacuation
The Human Brain: My, What a Well-Organized “Kludge”!
Looking back at a neuroscience book that was popular two decades ago is quite revealing in the light of new findings
A universe grounded in Mind rather than matter
When was the last time you heard or read the words ‘conscience’ or ‘sin’?
AI and the Spectrum Crisis: What You Need to Know
The spectrum crisis is NOT a metaphor. The frequencies everyone wants are finite, the physics will not budge, and the tools to fix the problem are available
Don’t Get Trapped in a Data Mine
It’s a common pitfall. Even Google played with the idea that a coincidental relationship between baseball and a full moon might be meaningful
Article in Top Science Journal Endorses ‘Nature Rights’
As the journal Nature joins the list of endorsers, the idea is becoming an establishment policy juggernaut
Computer Engineer Robert Marks Says AI will Never Match Humans
But do the sophisticated new chatbots prove Marks wrong? Turns out, he is writing a new book to address that
Socialism’s Most Pressing Problem: The Human Mind
Markets, prices, and profits do what socialist central planners cannot: coordinate millions of independent human minds
Briefs
MIT psychologist: Beware the chatbot’s artificial empathy
Spotted! Indie Canadian news outlet sniffs out phantom AI “writer”
The struggle to produce better social science
Parents enlist AI to monitor what goes on at school boards
Is AI really making us more productive? That’s unclear
Can machines reason? Depends on what you mean by “reason”
Nuclear doomsday mag says, AI Doomerism is bad science
How much can the AI companies get away with before karma kicks in?
How long will the Superintelligence Accord last? Got a stopwatch?
The high risks of making a chatbot—or influencer—your doctor
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