Tag: Bill Joy

The Pied Pipers of the ‘Liberal World Order’. Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell.

Rory Stewart knows practically everything, he assures us. He lives to be noticed and interviewed. He is also convinced of his sublime virtue. Rory Stewart, in short, is the opposite of Socrates. I think it is critical to notice when the trees seem to be advancing against the traditional Christian Worldview, and who has been… Read More The Pied Pipers of the ‘Liberal World Order’. Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell.

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Not to Worry, Positivist Elon Musk Will Save Us

…and all of human civilization  —-from inevitable mass extinction events through his eventual self-sustaining multi-planetary space outposts, first on Mars, beginning (if all goes well) in approximately two years, and then from much farther outposts ‘out there’ in space over time. For the first time, Musk says, in the Earth’s approximately 4 & 1/2 billion… Read More Not to Worry, Positivist Elon Musk Will Save Us

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Localism — or what?

What good is “progress” in the wrong direction Chesterton asked. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates… The Jetsons fantasy. After Oppenheimer? Really? But, the Progressives retort, it’s only crazy reactionaries who oppose Penicillin —or Planned Parenthood (as if these were morally equivalent) who oppose Progress. No specious rationalization can justify R&D technology for… Read More Localism — or what?

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The Godfather of AI Has Regrets

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British Canadian computer scientist and cognitive philospher most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.[13] In 2017, he co-founded… Read More The Godfather of AI Has Regrets

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