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Category Archives: Science
Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?
Occasionally, the NYT is good for something. Cliff Huang’s “Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?” is a very well-written and enlightening in-depth piece on the rapidly advancing, applied science field of algorithmic machine-learning. The introduction to the piece hints … Continue reading
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Slaughterbots & Von Neumann Machines
The fictional but not-too-distant-from-future-reality Slaughterbots scenario is thought provoking: UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute have created an eerie viral video titled “Slaughterbots” that depicts a future in which humans develop small, hand-sized drones that … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Nanotechnology, Technology
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How Men and Women Define Success
Psychologist Susan Pinker believes there are hard-wired differences in how men and women (on average) perceive happiness and success at work (“His Standards or Hers? How Men and Women Define Success”). When I was in Amsterdam in 2008 to talk … Continue reading
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AI-Based “Hate Speech” Scrubbing
Lion of the Blogosphere on what the future portends, when in the hands of a SJW Silicon Valley: One of the reasons why the internet has become such a bastion of free speech is that there is such a massively … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Wars, Political Correctness, Technology
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Psychologists on Virtue Signaling
From “Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists”: When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don’t affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a “disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.” But new … Continue reading
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The Online Relevance of René Girard
In The Weekly Standard, Joseph Bottum, professor of cyber-ethics at Dakota State University, writes a cuck piece on the Great Statue Removal Frenzy, but in this passage astutely discusses the contemporary relevance of René Girard (“The Joy of Destruction”): In … Continue reading
The Target on Gab’s Back
Gab, one of the first forays of Alt-Tech (or Tech 2.0) is under attack from the SJW-Fueled-I.T.-Company industry: The social media service Gab, which bills itself as Twitter for the alt-right, is on the verge of being booted from the … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness, Technology
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The Atlantic: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
This is the single best article/study I’ve read to date regarding the impact of smartphones (and social media) on Generation Z, looking at the radical impact this technology, and its concomitant new forms of socialization, are having on the psychological … Continue reading
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Dysgenics: Pt. 24,183
Here is the abstract for “Worldwide Increase of Obesity Is Related to the Reduced Opportunity for Natural Selection”: Worldwide rise of obesity may be partly related to the relaxation of natural selection in the last few generations. Accumulation of mutations … Continue reading
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The Five Laws of Behavioral Genetics
Jayman’s five laws of behavioral genetics bear repeating to normies: All human behavioral traits are heritable The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes. A substantial portion of the variation in … Continue reading