Your example is a good one, and there are many more examples of technological leaders not executing more than token gestures (if that) to achieve reac...
A transhumanist feature I would like to have right now is the 'Language Download' so that I could become an instant fluent French reader, writer, and ...
Star Trek (especially, the Second Generation series) set in the 24th Century seems to embody a version of transhumanism. There is a high level of huma...
So, fromage de chèvre. Provided you bought female goats; provided somebody gets them periodically pregnant; provided Mrs. Hanover milks them twice a d...
What does it take to be knowledgable about general history, general science, current affairs, and the like? It takes lots of reading in these areas, s...
The only reason I have for believing that things are as they seem to be is that my beliefs "work". I believe most people are good, but some people are...
Which part -- that someone has falsely claim belief & allegiance, or the beliefs themselves? The behavior of people who actually believe in the cited ...
An intriguing question. I can only guess--no definitive answer from me. The quality of life plays a role here: A population can increase without neces...
No. Taking a typical 19th century early 20th century midwestern farm as an example... Back in the day, there were still only 24 hours in a day. Prior ...
Still, their are companies pursuing what is either a delusion or a premature technology. This is sort of the Uber view -- labor is an unnecessary expe...
Yes. A technology where robots could replace themselves and produce other machines without involving human labor is imaginable, but is more in the rea...
A very large problem of capitalists eliminating labor in production--but maintaining ownership of all the factories--is 'how would the market of goods...
Back in the day when farms were shifting from horses to machines, about 1/3 of the population was engaged in farming--32,000,000. Today there are abou...
There is nothing even an extremely competent police force can do about many petty crimes in a large city. With that understanding, many minor property...
Ricardo and Marx, primitives that they were, referenced actual live human labor, not automated machines. It is true, though, that machines impart some...
To use an English expression, one can make a purse out of silk or make it out of a sow's ear. Or to be more precise, try to make a silk purse out of a...
Well, if you can trust that you will do the right thing, then you are NOT an immoralist. So what's it going to be? A-morality is no more likely to lea...
No, you can't--BECAUSE good people are capable of doing bad things, and conversely, bad people are capable of doing good things. You will have to labe...
Hidden in plain sight! The internet has facilitated the distribution of porn, in the same way it has facilitated the distribution of all sorts of info...
Porn is not harmful. There is only good porn and porn that doesn't do it for us. One statistic that helps us understand pornography is that porn video...
I agree completely. I finished college and had still not acquired a very good, practical understanding of how a body worked. Over the last 50 years si...
Excellent topic! Art teachers say young children are much more fun to teach because they haven't lost their ability to either imagine, or express what...
I agree with you -- under the condition that one do a lot of reading (reliable sources only) over time. It is not reasonable to expect a population of...
One part of this 'jungle' is that we can form beliefs in irrational, subconscious, and accidental ways. If one is born into a devout family, one will ...
This a mighty poor example for a libertarian to use for an attack on taxation. You are worried about the pennies spent on funding abortion, while igno...
My specialty is the irrelevant aside. The documentary, "My Octopus Teacher" shows that 'knowledge' or adaptive capacity, or resourcefulness, is someti...
That is the sort of statement that can get ungrateful peasants banned. Look, the moderators are volunteers. They do a generally good and pretty much t...
I have no idea what the soul is. (well... some idea, but that is neither here nor there) One thing, though: we can only be ONE person -- not different...
It is remarkable that life evolved so many different forms, including us. It did take a long time -- life appeared on this planet about 3.5 Billion ye...
Most people are not / will not be intellectuals; most people are not / will not be rebels--political deviants. Most people are not engaged in philosop...
air moves when energy is imparted to it. Heat (more energy or less energy, depending) is the primary energy involved. There is also the force of gravi...
There is, of course, no shortage of liars, thieves, knaves, and scoundrels. Plenty of absolute idiots, and fools, too. You are focussing on the right ...
True enough, one does not need to use Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al. It's also the case that the operation of these extremely large corporations is ...
Yes. There ARE good schools with good students getting a good education. These schools produce the next generation of cadre that the ruling class need...
The 'loss of freedom' will, and does, come from unexpected sources. Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al are much more likely to compromise personal freedo...
We are supposed to be good, or at least, we COULD be good if we wanted to, at least a good share of the time. But quite often we opt for doing things ...
It is amazing. It's also amazing that all the remarkable features that an octopus has are innate -- it doesn't have time enough to learn it's remarkab...
I don't buy it either. On the other hand, there are some people I know who at this late date seem not to have developed much consciousness. My main ob...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. The question of meaning arose late in the historical game (just my guess). Tyrannosaurus Rex probably didn't worry ab...
On the other hand, family fights over politics are not a new thing. During the Vietnam War, lots of families had lots of arguments about the premises ...
They absolutely can be civil. A civil discussion between a Trump lover and a Trump loather probably won't result in changed positions, but if they can...
There's that toy, the 'echt-a-sketch" -- police use it to make authentic drawings of suspects. True enough, if the several great religions (Hindu, Bud...
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