1.Introduction: A Social Experiment with No Right to Withdraw By 2026, the tide of autonomous driving has become unstoppable. Entrepreneurs proclaim the arrival of "large-scale trials," declaring machines to be 200 times safer than humans, and move to eliminate steering wheels and brakes. Capital markets are boiling over, and the...
The screened are more aware than the superiors that IQ and test scores can never correctly measure a person. Then what to depict people ? Or is there such a standard ? Of course, it does exist, but it is not the degree of obedience, nor the degree of ease...
This is an era of unprecedented material abundance. Global food production could easily feed twice the current population, automation has replaced most repetitive labor, and the cost of accessing information approaches zero. Yet somehow, life has become increasingly difficult. The most absurd part is that it's not just impoverished regions...
Quantum mechanics has been in existence for over a century. It remains one of the most precise and predictive theories in the human knowledge system, yet it is also one of the most deeply and enduringly controversial fields. The focus of its controversies is often attributed to a series of...
...Or did we merely obscure the deeper drivers of reason itself? We say we want to be rational, and we subsequently think we need to avoid emotionality. So I begin to review my emotions. I eventually find that we don’t have a good definition of it. In my search, it...