Category: deep thoughts
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The Myth of the Adult
When we are kids, life’s trajectory looks something like this: struggle through childhood with crappy unfinished brains, then at some point, make a transition to adulthood, in which our brains are complete, mature, and equipped to handle what life throws at us. Calvin and Hobbes: Moving On, by Zatransis Every adult knows that’s bullshit. And every…
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The Upsides of the Death of Privacy
Technology has killed privacy. Even aside from the USA’s latest privacy invasions, most of us are semi-voluntarily leaving a trail of information as we go about our Internet-connected lives. Much is made of the downsides of the death of privacy, but what about the benefits? Like, remember when having an alibi for a crime meant…
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Science With Thought Experiments
Think about this: Science—empirical study of the world—only exists because thought experiments aren’t good enough. Yet. Philosophers used to figure out how stuff worked just by thinking about it. They would take stuff they knew about how the world worked, and purely by applying intuition, logic and math to it, figure out new stuff. No…
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