Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club. The greatest sin isn’t lust. It’s pride.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The no-problem era when things started to fall apart.

My latest at the Pipeline. Remolding the earth to a UN plan is an engineering project bigger than anything humanity has attempted before and so complex that perhaps only artificial intelligence can help governments do it.

New at the Belmont Club. Couldn’t find the bat, but they found the man.

New at the Belmont Club. Can hidden danger lurk behind the bright promise of artificial intelligence?

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Are reality and ordinary people slowly gnawing at the Woke tower?

Part 2 of my essay “The Return of Good and Evil” at the Pipeline. Suppose AI should regard humanity evil or worthless and worthy of extermination like HG Wells’ Martians? To what principle, deity or moral precept would us inferiors appeal for mercy? There being no principles.

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.

New at the Belmont Club. The history of the ex-future.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Beating the establishment means building a coalition against it.

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.

New at the Belmont Club. Our fact-haunted world.

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!

New at PJmedia VIP. Why radicalism can poison everything.

New at the Belmont Club. Misdirecting amidst the fog of war.

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?

New at the Belmont Club. The problem of human obsolescence.

New at PJMedia VIP. Law enforcement can be used to overawe opponents. But there’s a social price.

New at the Belmont Club. Understanding a threat you’ve never in your life seen before.

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 …

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