According to polls, roughly half of people in the United States and Britain believe in ghosts. Furthermore, around 25% of people report having seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
Some economists predict that increasing government spending now, say on infrastructure projects, will “stimulate” the economy by putting money in workers’ pockets.
As Plato noted, once one has ascended to the pinnacle of wisdom, or at least successfully defended a PhD thesis.
With the very real possibility that such technology will be able to make changes to itself, even a slight diversion from goals that match our own could be disastrous.
The clearest evidence for this lack of a distinction is the fact that most individuals are cisgender (individuals whose gender identity aligns with their biological sex).
This is not an argument against immigration in general. Instead, it suggests there are good reasons to be skeptical of arguments for open-borders.
The most obvious and useful examples of current AI are the speech recognition on your phone, and search engines such as Google.
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It is only the theocratic movement of Islamism that seeks to silence critics with character assassination, blasphemy laws, threat of riot and the dirty murder of cartoonists.
Getting to know the emotional lives of farmed animals and developing the habit of associating meat with animal suffering may be a potent tool in the meat reducer’s tool kit.
Moller musters economic data to suggest that blatant injustices barely show up in the overall trajectory of economic growth in most countries over long periods of time.
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Evergreen State fiasco drew national attention, and since then it appears that the college has only chosen to double down on the insanity.
Kill All Normies is merely a good start in need of deeper research, broader connections, clearer argumentation, and a great deal of editing.
The progress we as a society have made in recent decades—in women’s rights and in gay rights, for starters—largely stems from our overcoming religion-based prejudices.