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Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies

Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it.

Stewart Slater

5 Dec 2023 · 8 min read

Strange New Sci Fi

If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first tragedy of culture war.

Johnny Schmidt

21 Sep 2023 · 16 min read

Utilitarianism’s Missing Dimensions

According to the ethical theory of utilitarianism, refusing to push the strange man is unethical. In both scenarios, the ethical action is to sacrifice one to save five.

Erik Parens

3 Jan 2018 · 10 min read