With the internet, chat rooms and discussion boards devoted to investing and promoting stocks also arose. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, these sites helped promote and drive up the prices of so-calleddotcom stocks—abubble that famously burstwith far-reaching economic consequences. Meme stoc...
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 ...
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...
A robust and open culture is a complex system that has its own unique lifecycle in a series of cycles that are progressive and evolutionary in nature, but a second Trump term represents the crash-and-burn phase to the current lifecycle and its worldview that began in the early 1980s. It ...
Coinbase’s actions have triggered outrage among fans and holders of Pepe Coin. Whilst this might initially appear to be a case of rudimentary housekeeping, the unpredictable nature of meme coins means that the full consequences are hard to predict. Some fans of PEPE have already taken t...
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...
of the soul, a necessary metamorphosis that will bring us face to face with our past actions. It is our entire species being swallowed into the belly of the whale that brings us to our inner temple where we must die to our old selves before we can be born again. Without this painful ...
Overall, my interpretation of the decoded message is that it is a call to action, urging us to be mindful of the consequences of our actions and to strive for a more sustainable and equitable future. The message is encouraging us to think creatively and to find new solutions to the challen...
So this line of argument does not preclude the possi- bility of conscious machines. Finally, there may be some people who apply to con- sciousness, rather than to intelligence, what Turing called the ‘Heads in the Sand’ objection; ‘The consequences of machines thinking would be too ...
Rank-and-file officers in our own FBI predicted the disaster that befell London, and could befall the U.S., if and when we let the neocons drag us down the road to “World War IV“: “Such an attack, though, may have grave consequences for your ability to discharge your responsibility...