Possible Minds: 25 ways of looking at AI – John Brockman The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray American War: A Novel – Omar El Akkad The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff Doughnut Economics – Kate Raworth 1861: The Civil War Awakening – Adam Goodheart Dreamland: The true Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic …
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A convincing read about why millennial’s in the US are going for mass melt down. Its a High Wire Casino economy with no safety nets. Especially notable to Canadians is that almost none of this applies in socialist Canada. Down in glorious flames
How America Ends “But it wasn’t just the pragmatists within the GOP who felt this panic. In the most influential declaration of right-wing support for Trumpism, the conservative writer Michael Anton declared in the Claremont Review of Books that “2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die.” His cry of despair offered a …
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A Call to the Muslims of the World August 10, 2018Ibn Warraq Secular Islam Topics: IslamShareTweet Originally published July 2, 2004. From Freethinkers and Humanists of Muslim Origins Dear friends, The tragic incidents of September 11 have shocked the world. It is unthinkable that anyone could be so full of hate as to commit such heinous …
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Scientist Pavel Sedikh builds his own spacecraft in the Soviet space institute in Moscow, and accompanied by a female astronaut and a boy, he embarks on for the first human trip to the Moon. Destination Moon (1950) Although perhaps best known for producing a number of classic sci-fi films (When Worlds Collide, The War of …
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In a way, when we ask, is there a sustainable future, we are not really asking about fossil fuels or feeding 9 billion people. We are asking can the Manufactured Normalcy Field absorb such and such changes? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-nauseous/
Bostrom, a philosopher, wrote the seminal AI book “Super Intelligence” . Its a hard slog through a philosophical morass but non the less is has become THE major influence on how the intelligencia have shaped the discussion surrounding how AI will evolve with humanity. The author summarizes his views here..
