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Even if we can somehow build an all-knowing machine, and even if we can somehow align it with moral values so that it’s also deeply good… should we? Or is it just a bad idea to build an AI god — no matter how perfectly aligned it is — because it would squeeze out space for human choice?
The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem
Silicon Valley is racing to build a god — without understanding what makes a good one.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Even if we can somehow build an all-knowing machine, and even if we can somehow align it with moral values so that it’s also deeply good… should we? Or is it just a bad idea to build an AI god — no matter how perfectly aligned it is — because it would squeeze out space for human choice?
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AI is absolute garbage, the only people this helps is the rich, AI will cause consumer products, electricity and water prices to skyrocket. Data centres are hurting communities & consumers.
AI is skyrocketing the price of RAM. Computers, phones and tablets could be next
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
AI is skyrocketing the price of RAM. Computers, phones and tablets could be next
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
AI is skyrocketing the price of RAM. Computers, phones and tablets could be next | CBC News
If you've been in the market recently for RAM, you've probably noticed a major spike in prices as memory manufacturers pivot more of their production capacity away from consumer products to supplying ...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI is absolute garbage, the only people this helps is the rich, AI will cause consumer products, electricity and water prices to skyrocket. Data centres are hurting communities & consumers.
AI is skyrocketing the price of RAM. Computers, phones and tablets could be next
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
AI is skyrocketing the price of RAM. Computers, phones and tablets could be next
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Vox senior technology correspondent Adam Clark Estes has a cautionary tale about chatbots.
What started as using AI for tedious chores — meal plans, grocery lists, quick research — quietly morphed into hours talking to a chatbot. And Adam isn’t alone.
What started as using AI for tedious chores — meal plans, grocery lists, quick research — quietly morphed into hours talking to a chatbot. And Adam isn’t alone.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Vox senior technology correspondent Adam Clark Estes has a cautionary tale about chatbots.
What started as using AI for tedious chores — meal plans, grocery lists, quick research — quietly morphed into hours talking to a chatbot. And Adam isn’t alone.
What started as using AI for tedious chores — meal plans, grocery lists, quick research — quietly morphed into hours talking to a chatbot. And Adam isn’t alone.
Everyone should be clamoring for tools and features that block AI content. And for content companies, blocking AI slop is your new Job One. www.computerworld.com/article/4063...
It’s time to push back against the AI internet
Everyone should be clamoring for tools and features that block AI content. And for content companies, blocking AI slop is your new Job One.
www.computerworld.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Everyone should be clamoring for tools and features that block AI content. And for content companies, blocking AI slop is your new Job One. www.computerworld.com/article/4063...
In case you're tempted to engage your racist uncle in a political discussion this Thanksgiving: medium.com/@jimboland/g...
Gödel, Euclid and Kellyanne Conway (or: “A Mathematical Proof that it’s pointless to try to argue…
Douglas Hofstadter, in 1979, wrote a seminal book — “Gödel, Escher and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” — that explored themes of how…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In case you're tempted to engage your racist uncle in a political discussion this Thanksgiving: medium.com/@jimboland/g...
Taves: Turning Point set a trap. UC Berkeley fell in deep. www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/14/t...
Taves: Turning Point set a trap. UC Berkeley fell in deep.
Cal’s protesters became unwitting accomplices in conservatives’ content strategy aimed at undermining universities — and academic freedom.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Taves: Turning Point set a trap. UC Berkeley fell in deep. www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/14/t...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Our state is (even more) gerrymandered. Now what?
NC Republicans just rammed through a gerrymandered map that steals yet another congressional district out from under North Carolin...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Mapping our Path Forward · North Carolina Democrats
📣 ZOOM ALL CALL 📣
Our state is (even more) gerrymandered. Now what?
NC Republicans just rammed through a gerrymandered map that steals yet another congressional district out from under North Carolin...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now? voxdotcom.visitlink.me/BnqZii
The disaster at the CDC, explained by its former boss
The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now?
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October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now? voxdotcom.visitlink.me/BnqZii
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#publichealth
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RFK Jr.'s legacy gets worse and worse. 1596 measles cases (and counting) this year, 3 deaths (so far), the highest count in 30 years. Ongoing outbreaks in South Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Arizona, ...
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RFK Jr.'s legacy gets worse and worse. 1596 measles cases (and counting) this year, 3 deaths (so far), the highest count in 30 years. Ongoing outbreaks in South Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Arizona, ...
www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...
U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country
In South Carolina, more than 130 schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.
www.npr.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
#publichealth
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RFK Jr.'s legacy gets worse and worse. 1596 measles cases (and counting) this year, 3 deaths (so far), the highest count in 30 years. Ongoing outbreaks in South Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Arizona, ...
www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...
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RFK Jr.'s legacy gets worse and worse. 1596 measles cases (and counting) this year, 3 deaths (so far), the highest count in 30 years. Ongoing outbreaks in South Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Arizona, ...
www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
Five Pearls of Wisdom From a Legend of Financial Writing
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October 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Canadians, showing off their science-based medicine. They don't have to rub it in.
Doctors urge flu shots, especially for kids, seniors and those with lung conditions #Canada #HealthCanada #FluVaccines
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/09/29/d...
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Doctors urge flu shots, especially for kids, seniors and those with lung conditions
TORONTO — Seniors, long-term care residents, hospital staff and patients in Ontario will be able to get the flu shot starting this week. Vaccination will open to everyone else in the province aged six...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Canadians, showing off their science-based medicine. They don't have to rub it in.
Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation was censorship, pure and simple. ABC and Disney (who owns them) have the wealth and power to resist. They didn't. Cowards.
For what it's worth, I just canceled DisneyPlus. #CancelDisney #CancelDisneyPlus.
For what it's worth, I just canceled DisneyPlus. #CancelDisney #CancelDisneyPlus.
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation was censorship, pure and simple. ABC and Disney (who owns them) have the wealth and power to resist. They didn't. Cowards.
For what it's worth, I just canceled DisneyPlus. #CancelDisney #CancelDisneyPlus.
For what it's worth, I just canceled DisneyPlus. #CancelDisney #CancelDisneyPlus.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
― Frank Herbert, Dune
September 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
― Frank Herbert, Dune