We’ve heard countless times that bigger brains evolved to allow for higher intelligence in our hominid ancestors – but not any more.
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Killing to harvest organs is now sufficiently mainstream for NPR to have featured one of the latest proposal’s authors in a respectful interview.
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Occam’s Razor is never raised as a critique of the multiverse that I’m aware of. But multiverse claims are an obvious contradiction of the Razor’s minimalist approach.
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Several ships are descending to this planet, and inside them are stormtroopers waiting to attack.
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Some animal behavior defies a purely mechanical explanation; as humans have an immortal mind, might some animals have such a mind beyond biology, too?
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The addiction of constantly scrolling is like we are forever searching for something in a kind of eternal loop to reach a perfected digital fix of some sort.
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Box office failures are a staple in the film industry, but every so often, a movie tanks so badly that it causes one to wonder whether Hollywood is drastically misjudging the country’s pulse and interests.
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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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Consciousness is an immaterial creation given only to human beings to enable us to have a relationship with a higher power and to understand our universe better.
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The earliest Christian ethical writing dating from about 100 — the Didache — explicitly condemns “murder” as profoundly sinful.
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In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity.
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Egnor notes that intellect is the capacity to contemplate universals. In this respect, a human being is more different from an ape than an ape is from a virus.
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Without this conviction there is no logical ground for supporting human rights in the United States or elsewhere; there is no logical ground for human rights at all.
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The whole reason the sixth movie was called Return of the Jedi was because it was assumed that Luke would train more Jedi, and this is an audience expectation, and the title crawl is surgically destroying such expectations.
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The people trying to manufacture human language from ape laughter simply don’t have a better hypothesis. But much seems to depend on pretending otherwise.
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The frequency of AI slop is too high for AI to be successful and there are few solutions, except to wait until the labs produce better AI products.
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The LLMs’ hallucinations could end up getting them severely restricted in Europe, depending on the outcome of a recent legal challenge for defamation.
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Of course trees are alive but they have very little else in common with human beings beyond consisting of carbon molecules.
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After a police shooting, one answer may let the officer off; a different one may result in homicide charges. But both answers might be “truthful.”
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