Is Discrimination About Inequality?
30 May 2023 | 3:13 pm

Though “discrimination” is a central theme of our modern world, it is closely connected to many other powerful related concepts. So we might wonder: what is the essential motive or passion driving attitudes and behaviors here?

The Sacred Shaped Hole in Our Hearts
26 May 2023 | 3:46 pm

There is a God–shaped vacuum in the heart of each man, which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal. (more) In my recent efforts to study the sacred, I framed the question in this usual social science way:

To Imagine AI, Imagine No AI
25 May 2023 | 11:04 pm

To appreciate an AI future, consider a future without AI. That is, imagine that we somehow manage to forever prevent any AIs who might take control of civilization. But also assume that our descendants continue to evolve competitively, with technical and economic growth for millions or billions of years. Now ask: what exactly did you think would happen there?


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