Showing posts with label Brave new world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brave new world. Show all posts
Friday, May 8, 2026

What is the most important contribution of Walter Donway's recent book about his serious chats with AI?

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  As I was reading Walter Donway’s recently published book, A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence , I was looking for an aspect to foc...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Does stakeholder capitalism contribute to human flourishing?

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  Many people reading this are likely to view the use of stakeholder terminology by business leaders as little more than a public relations ...
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Saturday, September 30, 2023

What's wrong with people?

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  This question is posed in the title of Chapter 10 of Steven Pinker’s book , Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters. ...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Could polycentric defence protect us from monsters?

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The accompanying photo depicts the views of a couple of protesters who were opposed to Australian involvement in the United States led invas...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Who was Erasmus and why should we care?

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 After I stumbled across that quote a few days ago, it struck me that Erasmus might have something relevant to say to people living today. ...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Did Enlightenment thinkers believe that reason could illuminate all phenomena?

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  When I began to think about David Friedrich’s painting “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”, there seemed to be something odd about it. The pai...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

What have you been thinking about this year?

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  I expect that many readers of this blog will have spent some time this year thinking about the response of governments to the COVID-19 pan...