Enjoying the view from Limbo
Artificial intelligence will never be human. It will never have the best characteristics of humans. Neither will it ever have the worst characteristics of humans. What it will be, and all it will be capable of becoming, is an emulation, an imitation, a digital simulation, of the best and worst characteristics of humans. However, as it can only be simulating those elements of...
I have received some interesting feedback about last week’s article, “The Dangerous Idealization of Material Success,” and its follow-up, “Concluding Unscientific Postscript,” in which I challenge the current orthodoxy among so-called conservatives regarding the place and value of material acquisitiveness in the hierarchy of natural concerns. One very thought-provoking comment came from my old friend Tim Birdnow (visit his blog here), who e-mailed...
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