Monthly Archives: November 2017

What Are Slaughterbots?

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While lethal, fully autonomous weapons systems, or killer robots, aren’t yet able to select and attack targets without human control, a number of countries are developing such devices. And a number of organizations including The Future of Life InstituteHuman Rights Watch, and the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, have all warned against their development. Continue reading What Are Slaughterbots?

The Question of Life’s Meaning

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ~ Paul Gauguin

The Importance of the Question of Life’s Meaning

All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, 
in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, 
a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. Continue reading The Question of Life’s Meaning

The Problem of Life

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ~ Paul Gauguin

The Problem of Life

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human conditionBlaise Pascal Continue reading The Problem of Life