How artificial intelligence will inherit and exacerbate issues already undermining the evolution of human civilization.
Information, Artificial Intelligence & the Problem of Scale
Tag: evolution
The Devolution of Language
An exploration of the possibility that language is undergoing a process of devolution, and what that means for human civilization.
It Shouldn’t Be Called Virtue Signaling
While the phenomena certainly exists, the term for it is empirically false. By this point we are all familiar with the concept of virtue signaling. You are trying to discuss some topic and instead of engaging in authentic rhetoric your sparring partner starts moral grandstanding in ways which serve only to identify themselves as morally … Continue reading It Shouldn’t Be Called Virtue Signaling
You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence
Despite the expert fearmongering regarding artificial intelligence, a broader perspective of the phenomena provides a more hopeful outlook.
Buying Time: Consumerism As A Denial of Mortality
Is the reason that we fill our lives with so much stuff that doing so prevents us from facing the certainty of our death?
The Dungherder 