Onestitatea ca valoare morala a fost o piatra de temelie a civilizatiei iudeo-crestine inca din momentele sale incipiente. Exodul 20:16 interzice marturia falsa impotriva aproapelui, o formulare care, desi interesanta la prima vedere, este interpretata in Crestinism ca interzicerea minciunii. Sigur ca putem merge mai departe, la traditiile filosofice elenistice din perioada antichitatii clasice, unde…
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Gen Z, Between Optimism And Despair
The big issues with the new generations.
John Green’s Woke Guilt
What being woke presupposes nowadays.
Peterson’s Beyond Order: Unstructured Mess With The Occasional Jewel
Few books I have anticipated as much as Jordan Peterson’s “Beyond Order”. Although I have criticized his last book “12 Rules For Life” on this same blog, I have been somewhat of a fan of Peterson’s and the ideas he was popularizing on YouTube and the various podcasts he was invited at. I believe opposition…
Another Day, Another Guru: “Think Like A Monk” Review
Jay Shetty is yet another faceless, noise making cog in the horrible Self-Help Guru economical complex. He’s shallowness is only surpassed by his hypocrisy.
“Post Corona” and Beyond
The state of where we’re at, with David Rothkopf and Scott Gallaway
🇬🇧 Professor Hofstadter Is Terrified Of AI
The following are the notes on the talk I gave with the same title, during the 2021 summer edition of “Tech Conference Europe”. The ideas presented are mostly based on a 2021 book entitled “Framers” by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, and Francis de Vericourt. “AI might show us that the human qualities we most value…
🇬🇧 Harari’s Sapiens: But Now It’s a Comic
The same incorrect over-simplifications, now in comic book form!
🇬🇧 Notes on Stories and Meaning: with Elif Shafak and Viktor Frankl
“Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as: the fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful.”
🇬🇧 Ethics of AI (mis)Use
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” – Robert Oppenheimer quoting from the Bhagavad Gita upon witnessing the first nuclear explosion The ethical problems relating to artificial intelligence are something of an umbrella term encompassing morality-related concerns when designing and using AI systems, as well as concerns for the behavior of the algorithms…
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