Superman and the Singularity

A recent discussion of the AI film Ex Machina brings up ideas about the desire for the perfectability of humans and our irresistable urge to play god.

By Tom Valovic | November 15, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Ethics, Identity, Philosophy, Society | AI, Albert Einstein, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, David Cox, Elon Musk, Ethics, Film, Friedrich Nietzsche, God, Humanity, Justice, Law, Movies, Perfectability, Perfection, Ray Kurzweil, Sara Watson, Superman, The Singularity, Transhumanism, Ubermensch, Unintended Consequences, Values

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, part one

It is exactly two hundred years ago that Byron, Percy Shelley, and his wife, Mary Shelley, were sequestered by a [...]

By David A. J. Reynolds | November 2, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Religion, Society | Christianity, Communism, Empire, Frankenstein, Genesis, God, Industry, Invention, Literature, Omnipotence, Poetry, Progress, Science, Secularism, Sublime, Transcendence, Walt Whitman

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