philosophy
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The Mac Touchscreen Rumor Goes Against Steve Jobs’ Philosophy
Gabo_Arts/Shutterstock.com Touchscreens could be coming to Mac computers. According to a Bloomberg report, an unnamed source claims that engineers are…
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Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned…
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Collective Mental Time Travel Can Influence the Future
We’re often told to “be here now.” Yet the mind is rarely tethered in place. We take mental trips to…
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TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm—It’s Your Phone
TikTok’s ascent to becoming the most popular site on the internet has sparked endless discussions about its stickiness—as if it…
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Meta Rethinks the Philosophy of the Facebook Feed
When I tell Facebook I want to see more or less of something, does that mean I’m telling it, for…
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The Three-City Problem of Modern Life
But today there is a third city affecting the other two. Silicon Valley, this third city, is not governed primarily…
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If Humans Went Extinct, Would a Similar Species Evolve?
The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of…
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Could Brandon Staley’s aggressive fourth down philosophy end up being predictable?
Brandon StaleyPhoto: Getty Images Sometimes football coaches can become so set in how “they do things” that their philosophy can…
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How Can Society Prepare for the Moral Norms of Tomorrow?
One way of embracing this uncertainty is to adopt a stance of axiological open-mindedness toward the future. We can get…
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The Secret to Being Lucky
In Aeon magazine, Hales wrote, “Luck might not be a genuine quality of the world at all.” Fine. But neither…
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