AGI-as-Idol-Destroyed-1024x585 Type post Author William A. Dembski Date February 7, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & MindScience EducationTechnology Tagged , algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, chess, children, computers, Dante Alighieri, education, farming, happiness, humans, humility, idols, Inferno, iPhones, machines, peace, Silicon Valley, social media, The Politics of Revelation and Reason Artificial General Intelligence: Destroying the Idol William A. Dembski February 7, 2024 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education, Technology 15 Even those doing the most to build and publicize the AGI idol do not wish it on their children. Read More ›
farmer Sri Lanka Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 27, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsLife Sciences Tagged , agriculture, ammonia, Canada, farmers, farming, fertilizer, food production, inflation, Justin Trudeau, manure, Netherlands, nitrogen, Reuters, rice, Russia, Sri Lanka, technocrats Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet” Wesley J. Smith July 27, 2022 Bioethics, Life Sciences 4 After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed. Read More ›
cricket Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 2, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , Aeon, artificial intelligence, bioethicists, chemicals, farming, fruit flies, global warming, honey, insects, late-term abortion, oysters, peas, personhood, PETA, queen bee, radical environmentalists, sentience, silk Bioethicists: Insects Are People, Too! Wesley J. Smith August 2, 2021 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 4 We have even seen one professor declare the supposed personhood of peas. Now, it is insects’ turn at being anthropomorphized. Read More ›
barista Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 25, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionary PsychologyHuman ExceptionalismIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, computers, Discovery Institute, education, farming, good, human beings, hunter-gatherers, Jay Richards, labor, robots, schools, teachers, The Human Advantage, unemployment, Wall Street Journal Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch” David Klinghoffer July 25, 2018 Evolutionary Psychology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design 4 No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers. Read More ›
running robots Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 27, 2018 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, artificial intelligence, Civil War, farming, history, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, jobs, liberalism, robots, Rod Dreher, socialism, The Human Advantage, unemployment, United States, Utopia Richards: Using Artificial Intelligence to Sell the Welfare State David Klinghoffer June 27, 2018 Neuroscience & Mind 3 There’s an undoubted sense of crisis in the air. Read More ›