John Vervaeke describes a near-extinction moment in the Upper Paleolithic period that gave birth to modern humans. Deep freezes and volcanic erruptions created environmental degradation of such a scale that humanity was vastly reduced, toiling away in little pockets just to survive. Our re-emergence...
but generally less desired place where patients weren’t quite as sick and pay wasn’t quite as good. I asked him one day why he’d done this. He told me that “every day, I would drive past this hospital
as well. we might simulate potential alien civilizations that we haven't encountered. maybe that would be very important for gaining information about how alien civilizations would behave in case we did run into them. think of all the reasons why humans have tried to create, say fictional ...
We humans are in trouble. We have let loose a new evolutionary process that we don’t understand and can’t control. The latest leaps forward in artificial intelligence (AI) are rightly causing anxiety. Yet people are responding as though AI is just one more scary new technology, like elect...
"what can we do today, so that tomorrow we can do what we are unable to do today?" - paulo freire
Us humans find it almost impossible to break a habit and cultivate a new one. One could crack a joke at the expense of Bing users or those still using Internet Explorer but simplicity and habits are hard to change. So, we won’t tell you to kill your Binance account, ...
Troubling scenarios of this form have appeared recently in the press. Other fears center on the prospect of out-of-control superintelligences that threaten the survival of humanity. All of these examples refer to cases where humans have failed to correctly instruct the AI algorithm in how it sho...
Or the text as it appears on the back of the card:Public banks are banks that are owned by the people through their representative governments, such as a city, county or state. They differ from private banks in that they are mandated to serve the public interest. Unlike Wall Street banks...
In essence, he introduces the possibility of an NSA “dick pic program” as the “line in the sand” for the Americans. He then backs up his argument with taped interviews with the same folks who failed to identify Edward Snowden, and who now display anger and outrage at the idea of ...
ve literally have had hundreds of christains of all versions praying for me to agree with them over the last 30+ years. Curious that, despite the many promises in the bible, all of you Christians have failed miserably. This god claims it hardens hearts so humans can’t accept it, so ...