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Foundations of Logic – Is Truth and illusion?
I started a discussion on Truth on Foundations of Logic group Is Truth just a sometimes useful illusion? What is truth? What is this idea we have of something being True? Clearly, truth doesn’t just reside in the existence of … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, understanding
Tagged Philosophy, understanding, successive approximations to truth, truth, Responsibility, Evolution, future, freedom, risk mitigation
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Quora – AI and mankind
Quora – How will artificial intelligence influence mankind? This is an extremely deep and interesting question. Artificial intelligence isn’t a singular thing, it is a spectrum of classes of systems spanning many orders of magnitude, and exponentially expanding for the … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Ideas, understanding
Tagged understanding, Economics, AI, Abundance, future, technology, choice, risk mitigation, complexity
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Comment on a Jordan Peterson video about the radical left
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson On The Impact Of the Radical Left – YouTube 02:16 “It is easy to understand why people are emotionally drawn to the ideals of socialism (let’s say) or the left; because it draws it’s fundamental motivational … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Nature, understanding
Tagged freedom, limits, risk mitigation, understanding, values
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Quora – evolution and aging
Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of aging? Each of the other answers address some aspect of the issue, and it is far more complex than any of them indicate. Yes, there is an aspect to it that the … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Longevity, understanding
Tagged understanding, Evolution, Longevity, risk mitigation
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Foundations of Logic group – markets and risk
A link from Foundations of Logic Group – NEWS Deadly Incurable Illness Spreading Across The Globe Infecting Nearly A Million People Just one more of the many examples where market incentives are directly at variance with human survival. It is … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Our Future, understanding
Tagged Abundance, AI, freedom, future, Philosophy, Responsibility, risk mitigation, understanding, values
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Islamophobia
I Grew Up as a Muslim in New Zealand. I Want You to Know I Belong. You belong. One didn’t need to be of a different race or culture to get a hard time growing up, just being different is … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, understanding
Tagged Abundance, Communication, complexity, freedom, future, Philosophy, risk mitigation
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Skeptics – implications of Christchurch shooting
NZ Skeptics The biggest cause of this tragedy is the competitive nature of our economic system, combined with the nature of being human, and the tendency in time of scarcity to revert to tribal groupings, and take the easy course … Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, Responsibility, risk mitigation, understanding
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