Technological Unemployment Is Coming By some reports, 40%-60% of all the jobs in existence today will be gone in a few short decades. Historically, our species has responded fairly well to massive shifts in employment (you’re probably not a farmer, am-I-right?). No one’s crying for the buggy whip makers because Ford didn’t give us a… Read More
Determining Determinism
The home for this post (and the rest of my blog) is now on the Steem blockchain. Free will and hard materialistic determinism are polar opposite views on the very nature of our existence as conscious beings. In one camp we have personal responsibility, the importance of good life choices, and the hope that comes… Read More
The Morality of Artificial Intelligence
The home for this post (and the rest of my blog) is now on the Steem blockchain. For a while now, I’ve been really interested in strong and super intelligence along with consciousness itself. My favorite movies explore these concepts such as The Matrix series. I’ve also really enjoyed 2001: A Space Odyssey, Inception, The… Read More
Where Does Your Morality Come From?
The home for this post (and the rest of my blog) is now on the Steem blockchain. Have you ever considered where your ideas of “good” and “bad” come from? I think most people don’t give it a second thought. Simple answers quickly come to mind like God, common sense, or mom and dad. Philosophers have discussed ethics for millennia,… Read More
Losing Eternity
The home for this post (and the rest of my blog) is now on the Steem blockchain. From Wikipedia: A comprehensive worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society’s knowledge and point of view. Not something we can easily change, right? Whether we like to… Read More