Tag: politics

• Nation-states are no longer fit for purpose to create a habitable future for humans and nature. Which political system is?

  July 20, 2024

  ‘Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,’ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared to the World Health Assembly on 29 November 2021, quoting Albert Camus’s The Plague.… more ›

• Antikythera

  July 7, 2024

  The history of AI and the history of the Philosophy of AI are deeply intertwined, from Leibniz to Turing to Hubert Dreyfus to today. Thought experiments drive technologies, which in… more ›

• TECHNOLOGY SHOULD SERVE ALL OF US. NOT JUST THE PRIVILEGED FEW.

  July 7, 2024

  In today’s world, AI systems are used to decide who gets hired, the quality of medical treatment we receive, and whether we become a suspect in a police investigation. While… more ›

• The Robots Won’t Cause Massive Unemployment This Time, Either

  June 28, 2024

  Until yesterday morning, if you’d asked me to name a US job where total employment had decreased due to 21st-century automation I might well have said ”translator. https://geekway.substack.com/p/the-robots-wont-cause-massive-unemployment more ›

• Macron Is Destroying His Democracy to Save It

  June 15, 2024

  The French Revolution may have been one of the world’s first experiments in mass democracy, but those governing France have long had a problem with the idea. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/13/macron-france-parliament-election-democracy-far-right-le-pen/ more ›

• Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

  April 4, 2024

  “I’ll show you where Trump sat and watched the revolution,” Joe Biden said, stepping out from behind his desk in the Oval Office. It was noon on a Wednesday, in… more ›

• Science, Politics And Gnosticism

  April 1, 2024

  Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Reddit Share to Tumblr Share to Pinterest Share via email Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! https://archive.org/details/science-politics-and-gnosticism more ›

• In the Shadow of Silicon Valley

  February 4, 2024

  Seeing cars​ with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my bicycle I often find myself riding alongside them,… more ›

• AI Modi started as a joke, but it could win him votes

  October 31, 2023

  The internet has been amused at an Instagram Reel where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can be heard “singing” a hit Bollywood song. Accompanying the singing is a picture of… more ›

• I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory

  March 26, 2023

  By revenue, TSMC is the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2020 it quietly joined the world’s 10 most valuable companies. It’s now bigger than Meta and Exxon. The… more ›