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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Even in the world of theatre, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary drama, tragedy plays a profound role in defining Western civilization, while evoking sadness and joy resulting in catharsis in audiences.
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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 ›
Even when the pranksters who create the often elaborate crop circles are identified, “croppies” insist that only ET could have done it.
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Andrew McDiarmid has become a prophetic voice warning against developments like this from the tech world.
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Grieftech poses genuine problems when avatars seem to keep the deceased unchanged in a changing world — or change just when we want them to.
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The trend against eyewitness reliability seems part of the ideology that undermines finding objective truth.
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Sometimes you wonder which version of yourself is the “real” you, and whether all this shifting makes you somehow inauthentic or fake.
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Without a subhuman, the human mind has no history. That is a serious blow to any Darwinian materialist project.
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The whole Darwinian paradigm of natural selection falls apart when you’re dealing with the human mind. It’s a very different thing.
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No person who is not demonically possessed could seriously harm/torture another human being without waking up in the middle of the night screaming.
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Many commentators seem to have forgotten Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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A shabbily dressed man with an unkept beard held up a cardboard sign saying, “Can you help? Please!”
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Rosenberg purports to cite pundits saying chatbot outputs are “AI slop,” that “the era of rapid AI advancement is ending,” that “AI scaling has hit the wall,” and the AI boom is just another “tech bubble.” No human is cited for these remarks.
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This stuff is likely harmless except that a troubling element is introduced if the imagined aliens are supposed to be evidence of our own insignificance.
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The relational model has practical consequences. It considers flourishing as less about “me” and more about “we.”
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If informed consent and “choice” are to mean anything, abortionists should be duty-bound to inform pregnant women about this risk.
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While the observed effect was small, any actual effect is a tool in the box and this one does not come with the risks associated with medications.
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Harold Koenig and colleagues are confident that improving the quality of research will strengthen the usefulness of the overall database.
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