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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | The "Conflict Thesis" forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervasive idea... Read More Read More | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | "If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" -variously attributed "I think of myself as running on hostile hardware." -Justin Corwin Yesterday I talked about how humans may have evolved a structure of political revolution, beginning by believing themselves morally superior to the corrupt current power structure, but ending by being corrupted by power themselves-not by any plan in their own minds, but by the echo of ancestors who did the same and thereby reproduced. | |
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bashibazuk.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Abstract: research into the subjective states of animals is highly important for the long term future. However, the dynamics of public opinion may threaten the scientific and political environments in which ideas must be developed and implemented. I outline a particular way in which this is especially likely to happen for animal consciousness research and | |
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www.sir.advancedleadership.harvard.edu
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| | | Dr. Alex Hanna from the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute explains some of the causes of gender and racial bias in AI and discusses using a community- and value-based approach for AI development to improve equity outcomes. | ||