Avainsana: dystopy
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The US presidential election – we stand at a watershed in history
In Springfield, immigrants eat cats and dogs.” Donald Trump’s statement a couple of days ago in the debate against Kamala Harris is so absurd and nonsense that it shows how little Trump lives in the real world and how he believes in completely invented and false threat images. Behind the claim is a seemingly psychotic…
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Global village, a bit fly and diversity – systems and synergy
When two things interact with each other, a system is created. The system of two components is the simplest possible system, for example the Earth and the Moon form a system where they affect each other with their attraction. Compared to this, our entire Solar System is a very complex system with millions of components.…
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Is artificial intelligence a Pandora’s box? – How to train artificial intelligence to be moral
Writer and historian Yuval Noah Harari warned humanity about artificial intelligence. His concern wasn’t that there would be a machine rebellion that would result in the machines taking over in the style of the Terminator and Matrix movies. His concern was that an AI could hack a human by using language and communicating with a…
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The Phantom menance – Fear creates the populist far right and stupidity sustains it
I previously wrote a blog post ”Political extremism arises from incompetence”. Now I return to the same theme. Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, who fled Nazi persecution to the United States, presented in her 1951 work The Birth of Totalitarianism that political extremism and totalitarianism arise from people being separated and not having power over things.…
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