My latest at The Pipeline. Is intelligence only concerned with ‘how’ to do things? Or does it also consider ‘why’? We are about to discover what AI’s answer to this question is.
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Chomsky
New at the Belmont Club. The history of the ex-future.
Allies Are Essential
My latest at PJMedia VIP. Beating the establishment means building a coalition against it.
Numb
New at PJMedia VIP. When the world crumbles around you but people, government and business act like passive zombies. They’re not indifferent; just deadened.
Beware the Singleton
New at the Belmont Club. Our fact-haunted world.
And You Thought It Was Infallible
My new article at the Pipeline. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them! AI governance is made out of people. They’re making our rules out of orders from people!
Historical Score Settling
New at PJmedia VIP. Why radicalism can poison everything.
Deception
New at the Belmont Club. Misdirecting amidst the fog of war.
Crimes Against Humanity
New at PJMedia VIP. With the exception of Putin the only ones the ICC bothers with are African tinpot strongmen. Where do you sue those who’ve ruined the world with pandemic, war and ideological social engineering?
School’s Out Forever
New at the Belmont Club. The problem of human obsolescence.
Showin’ Them Who’s the Boss
New at PJMedia VIP. Law enforcement can be used to overawe opponents. But there’s a social price.
Who Goes There?
New at the Belmont Club. Understanding a threat you’ve never in your life seen before.
The Reasons for ‘Lookism’
There is apparently an evolutionary reason behind ‘lookism’, the aversion to ugly people. Christoph Klebl, Professor Brock Bastian, Dr Katie Greenaway and Joshua Ju-suk Rhee of the University of Melbourne write: “We found that our psychological bias against people and things we consider ugly is tied up in a built-in human response that’s designed to …
Infamy is a Kind of Fame
New at PJMedia VIP. Living through a crisis historians haven’t labeled yet. After all, it took till 1945 for the term World War 2 to become official.
Has the West Got What it Takes?
My newest at the Pipeline. Like one of those action movie fight scenes where the Russian combatant pulls out a knife from a stab wound and smiles.
Knowledge is Pow-ah
New at the Belmont Club. The Wizard War on steroids.
The war vs carbon in the 3rd world
Planners want to replace the legacy Philippine jeepney vehicle fleet with “environmentally friendly models”. But the drivers are up in arms at the new units, “that operate through electricity or more environment-friendly fuel” at 2.4 to 2.6 million pesos each which are much more expensive than current vehicles costing from 200 to 600 K pesos.
My Name Was Bond
New at the Belmont Club. You always write twice.
Dialectics 101
DEI is coming to medical schools. “Increasingly, medical schools and schools of public health are enthusiastically embracing the values of DEI and instituting far-reaching policies to demonstrate their commitments to the cause. … That ideology is exemplified by a research methodology called “public health critical race praxis” (PHCRP)—designed, as the name suggests, to apply critical …
Who’s on first?
New at the Belmont Club. The implausible prophet of the Kremlin.