Showing posts with label Difficult questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Difficult questions. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Will AI Replace Human Labour? Revisiting a Question I First Asked in 2015

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  In 2015, I wrote an essay entitled, “Will robots replace human labour and reduce real wage levels?” That essay still seems to attract qui...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Why Bother Considering Whether Government is Necessary?

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  Before my most recent trip to India I had to choose which of two recently purchased books I should take with me: Aeon Skoble’s Deleting th...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Does voting just encourage them?

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  A couple of weeks ago the thought struck me that it was about time I wrote something about the personal ethics of voting. That turned out ...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

How should Lachlan Macquarie be remembered?

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  Lachlan Macquarie was governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. At that time, the colony comprised much of the Australian mainland (k...
Monday, November 15, 2021

What kind of being are you?

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  Self-reflection tells you that you are a conscious being that is aware of its own existence in the real world. You are aware of having a m...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Do people have a right to choose where they will live?

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                                                    Vietnamese boat people arriving in Australia in 1976 In the Western liberal democracie...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

How can we comprehend the emergence of consciousness?

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  It seems common for consciousness to be viewed either as an inexplicable mystery or as something we will only be able to comprehend if adv...