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The search for a conscious AI is a fad

By Vikram

Introduction

In the movie Her (2013), Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a lonely writer who is on the verge of separating from his wife Catherine, played by Rooney Mara. To cope with his loneliness, he purchases an OS (Artificially Intelligent Operating system), which is designed to adapt based...
19.11.25 09:08 AM - Comment(s)
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 A philosophical discussion on Morality: 3 different approaches and their shortcomings 

By Vikram

Morals are stupendously complicated, because they are not clear-cut facts. Instead, they are value judgements. It's hard to explain morality, because it takes you into a regress. Let's do this: assume you roughly define morality as principles about RIGHT and WRONG, or GOOD and EVIL. Now, how do...

22.07.24 10:17 PM - Comment(s)
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 Science has not killed god - Grounding belief in philosophy, logic and experience 

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 Science has not killed god - Grounding belief in philosophy, logic and experience 

Introduction 

I love science, and I think it's been the single most important driver of innovation, technology and human well-being. What historically propelled science was our curiosity to understand, not just the world we inhabited, but also the heavens that eluded us (metaphorically speaking)...

01.12.23 07:25 PM - Comment(s)
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