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Lessons of the Ukraine War

Maybe our worldview could use a rethink — I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Ukraine war and what we can learn from it. I don’t mean learn in a military sense though. There are lots of others talking about that. …

Ukraine

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Lessons of the Ukraine War
Lessons of the Ukraine War
Ukraine

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Dec 11, 2022

Purpose in the Age of The Ultimate Computer

What do you do when the friendly AI does everything for you? — What would you do if everything you were good at or wanted to do was easily surpassed by a machine? How do you define yourself as a person? It’s not a new question. Sci-fi writers ask this often in stories and some have been forced to ask this question since…

AI

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Purpose in the Age of The Ultimate Computer
Purpose in the Age of The Ultimate Computer
AI

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Dec 6, 2022

Napoleon’s Unusual Idea of Genius

“de fixer les objets longtemps sans être fatigué” or, “The ability to focus on objectives for long periods without tiring.” — When you think of what makes someone a genius you are probably thinking of someone who has a high level of innate intelligence–as if brilliant ideas, completed projects, inventions, discoveries and theories will pour out of them with the same effort you put into deciding what to wear in the…

Intelligence

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Napoleon’s Unusual Idea of Genius
Napoleon’s Unusual Idea of Genius
Intelligence

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Aug 1, 2022

Cultures Aren’t Isolated Islands and That’s a Good Thing

There’s an idea, a conservative one, that adopting new ideas and aspects of other cultures is a bad idea, or even a sort of cultural betrayal. The irony is people who think like that live their daily lives relying on many ideas from other cultures and they don’t realize it…

Culture

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Cultures Aren’t Isolated Islands and That’s a Good Thing
Cultures Aren’t Isolated Islands and That’s a Good Thing
Culture

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Jul 18, 2022

So You’re About to Inherit the World

“Make the world a better place.” If anything should be printed in the instruction manual of the world it’s that. You’re going to inherit this big ball of water and land and people and cities and cultures and nations and history. …

Politics

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So You’re About to Inherit the World
So You’re About to Inherit the World
Politics

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Jul 4, 2022

Why Optimism Wins

If you want to sound intelligent, be a pessimist. If you want to make the world a better place, be an optimist. I saw something on Twitter that grabbed my attention and connected with a feeling I’ve had for a long time about what it means to be optimistic about…

Life Lessons

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Why Optimism Wins
Why Optimism Wins
Life Lessons

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May 10, 2021

Recovering the Time We’ve Lost

The end of the pandemic is in sight. It isn’t here yet, but we can see it. A question on the minds of millions around the world is, “how do I recover what I lost in 2020 and 2021?” We’ve all lost something. For some, usually the wealthy, it was…

Pandemic

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Recovering the Time We’ve Lost
Recovering the Time We’ve Lost
Pandemic

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