The Efficiency Mandate Darwin’s brilliant insights are often framed in the context of survival. True enough, but there’s another aspect of the...
Let’s look at the logic Ok, logic isn’t the sexiest thing going. But, when I taught logic to undergrads, I learned something very cool...
Open Letter on Autonomous Weapons The following open letter is online at the Future of Life Institute. So far it has over 1000 signatories,...
Why Should We Care? (part 2) (This is Part 2 of a 3-part article.) Part 1 began by considering your possible wellbeing in ten years. ...
Why Should We Care? (Part 1) (Part 1 of a 3-part article) Your life will be radically different in ten years. You don’t know how...
Global Community of Intention Here’s my proposal: Let’s create a virtual global community to support the long-term wellbeing of humanity and our home...
Moore’s Law Suppose you had bought a new computer (or smartphone or tablet) on January 1, 2014. If you buy another new...
Why worry about climate change? The robots won’t mind the heat … Follow the money. That advice, immortalized in All the President’s Men, can help unravel the baroque ambiguities of public...
Robot Love Can robots love? At such an early point in the transition to robot culture (early 2015), it may still be...
Good Reason For Hope Human reality in the 21st century is becoming more artificial with every passing year. That is one of the...