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  • How Artificial Intelligence Systems Could Threaten Democracy

    How Artificial Intelligence Systems Could Threaten Democracy0

    U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop artificial intelligence systems that could potentially enhance government surveillance and censorship capabilities. Two U.S. senators publicly condemned the partnership, but what the National Defense Technology University of China wants from Microsoft isn’t the only concern. As my research shows, the advent

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  • How Art Breaks the Curse of the Familiar

    How Art Breaks the Curse of the Familiar6

    “Familiarity breeds contempt” runs the old adage, and contempt leads to ingratitude and unhappiness. What makes a husband impatient with his wife, whom he would never have dreamed of snapping at when they were first dating? Familiarity. What makes one’s work dull and draining? Familiarity. What makes us bored of our home, our family, our

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  • How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular

    How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular0

    Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, has no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from the rainforest that surrounds them, and they garden and hunt for their

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  • How Aristotle Can Help Us Toward Finding Purpose in Life

    How Aristotle Can Help Us Toward Finding Purpose in Life0

    One of the perennial questions of human nature is the question of purpose, and finding and fulfilling that purpose is often believed to be essential to happiness and contentment. While the personalization of finding one’s purpose may be a more recent phenomenon, the ancient writings of the philosopher Aristotle and his insights into human nature,

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  • How Are People So Sure That Islam is a “Religion of Peace”?

    How Are People So Sure That Islam is a “Religion of Peace”?0

    • November 16, 2015

    With the horrific ISIS-led attacks in Paris, the debate has once again risen about whether Islam is a religion of peace or a religion that promotes violence.      People on both sides of the debate often express a moral certitude about their position. But really, is there any way to know with certainty?    

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  • How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.

    How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1

    When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or

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