This year, Harvard Magazine featured an article that asserts that the Democrats have lost key tech industry endorsements. Let’s see if that matters.
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One really interesting feature of the opposition to data centers is that it pits the political left against the tech titans who have generously funded it.
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It would be a means of controlling who is allowed to “do” science and the ability to determine what can be communicated to the public.
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At the Brussels Signal, tech analyst Norman Lewis has been discussing a form of indoctrination that is becoming increasingly popular in the European Union, and doubtless elsewhere: prebunking — “a preventative measure that aims to prepare audiences to recognize and resist information risks.” (UNHCR) Prebunking is beloved of bureaucrats and you will hear a great deal about what a good thing it is from many sources — sources that should, under the circumstances, give pause for thought: ● “What Is Prebunking? It’s better to inoculate against disinformation than to debunk later.” (Psychology Today, 2021) ● “False information is everywhere. ‘Pre-bunking’ tries to head it off early” (NPR, 2022) ● “What is Pre-Bunking: The Power of Framing Before the Facts” (Simply Read More ›
He documented the chaos and drama of our political life from the rare perspective of a conservative addressing a largely liberal audience.
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Data centers will probably create jobs as well as eliminate them, which is usually what new technologies do, but environment concerns remain.
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World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab.
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Intellectual diversity is a key reason the public is expected to heed (and often pay for) universities. Apart from that, a university would not differ from a sect.
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Science writer Matt Ridley offers some helpful information about why the “furin cleavage site” was a smoking gun for top scientists for a lab origin for Covid.
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Fauci’s most revealing 1,141 pages are not a personal diary; despite all the personal material, he was writing at work on a government computer.
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If you don’t want conflict or controversy, don’t pretend you want to be where the news is. And don’t be surprised if your platform mostly appeals to conventional people who all agree with each other.
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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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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 people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems.
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Instead of being expected to believe that human consciousness is an illusion, we may believe it exists — along with the cabbage mind and the electron mind.
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If strategy is more important than ideology for accelerationists, that is probably because their aims are incoherent and their groups fragment easily.
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On Saturday, I looked at Matt Johnson’s thoughts on George Orwell’s vital but comparatively unknown 1946 essay, “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell, famous for Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), wanted to “make political writing into an art.” He was well aware that most competitors for public attention simply wanted to make political writing a reliable form of mass brainwashing. He hoped to find a public that sought an alternative. He published “Prevention” (longish, at 5500 words) in Polemic, a short-lived British intellectual magazine (1945–47), which featured work by such notables as Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, and Dylan Thomas. Intellectual freedom as “violence” Intellectual freedom, as we have always been told, is only ever one generation Read More ›
In addition to imprisoning the operators of these criminal conspiracies, we should pass laws explicitly making it a crime to purchase organs from overseas
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Burrows proposes an approach he calls “just preservation,” which would treat wild animals as the moral and legal equals of humans.
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If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead in simply severing ties from journals that are being politicized, reform may follow.
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