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Category Archives: Technology
Rothman on “Virtual Embodiment”
For those interested philosophy of mind (how can you not be?) and the possible directions that VR will take, Joshua Rothman has a good piece titled “Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?”. Rothman visits and experiences firsthand experimental lab … Continue reading
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Aldous Huxley on Techno-Dictators
Lefties never imagined that the techno-dictators might be an SJW form of dictatorship.
Posted in Culture, Technology
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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
Posted in Psychology, Technology
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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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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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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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Job Automation & Naïve Libertarianism
The Robot Job Automation Threat will have drastic consequences for all types and levels of jobs. The degree of job displacement is becoming, and will continue to be, quantum and accelerative. This radically new and burgeoning dynamic is a game … Continue reading
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The New Oligarchs
From a MarketWatch piece on Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, and what subsequent moves like this portend for the future: Could Amazon actually kill more American jobs than China did? It’s quite likely. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Technology
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Robert Schiller on Job Automation
What does Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert Shiller think about the Coming Robot Job Automation Apocalypse? Robert Shiller, the Nobel-Prize winning economist who is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, said that automation and artificial intelligence are the trends … Continue reading
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