I found two possible answers to that question in the work of two individuals who are not technology solutionists but think in systems. The first was from Harari who was quick to qualify what he meant by the end of human history based on his own perception of the evolutionary stages ofHomo...
“Trump has immanentized the crypto revolution,” Byrne concluded in his blog post. “We will each remember this day until we die, because we will be dealing with the consequences of this for the rest of our lives.” Magazine:They solved crypto’s janky UX problem. You just h...
As we navigate this starry expanse, we come to realize that the journey itself is the destination, a winding path of discovery that etches its own map upon the sands of time. And in the grand symphony of existence, we find our own refrain, a melody that harmonizes the discordant threads ...
Moral: After binging on competitive, delusional fantasies of grandeur and sadistic spectacle, it was time to consider the consequences, In other words, Vegas at about 4:12 AM. Our hero was in pretty deep, and what had started out to a coerced participation in a Robin Hood style heist had...
consider humorists no more than just “entertainers”, willing to make fun of anything in order to make a crowd laugh, however, has the audience ever contemplated why humorists are the some of the only people who are allowed to critique anything that crosses their mind without consequences?
However, his ambitions went far beyond mere rhetoric: He assembled 'patriotic forces' to use RG as a place for convergence, attracting members and sympathizers of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), the German and Austrian sections of the Identitarian Movement and loosely organized...
No way! It’s just that I choose to pay them rather than face the consequences: finance charges, dunning letters and phone calls, damaged reputation and so on. Years ago I realized that I was choosing to pay my bills and decided to make it as fun as possible. I...
of the corporation, or their mission. Wall Street, being virtually unregulated, had no regard for the long term consequences of its actions as its brokerage houses gave out money to collect commissions and placement fees and not to promote the distribution of wealth to all corners of society. ...
The Meme Machine:(Meme的机器).pdf,Susan Blackmore Consciousness in Meme Machines Setting aside the problems of recognising consciousness in a machine, this article considers what would be needed for a machine to have human-like conscious- ness. Human-
Dennett’s unwillingness to admit the limits of scientific rationality has consequences throughout the book. For example, it leads him to misrepresent William James, for whose work The Varieties of Religious Experience he professes great respect. At one point, he quotes James out of context, maki...