Category: Articles
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Supersmart AI in 19th century. Human labor could have been eradicated centuries ago
In my culture, they often say you could achieve more, have a better education. It is a pity for the humanity that you have such a job (an underachiever). This cannot be more laughable. It looks like human society is doing everything to improve its condition and scientific achievements. Buying a new mansion, super-duper cars,…
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Do you want to be a top politician? You must be a grand actor or dumb
Imagine a political constellation you can easily use to gain political capital and go up the ladder in politics. But you don’t use it because it would reveal you are smart and all the lobbyists, movers-and-shakers, crooks, super-rich families and lodges would teach you a lesson. One Czech former prime minister (and in my opinion,…
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Big money, secret services and why Wikipedia may not be independent?
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the founders of Wikipedia, did a terrific thing by not making Wikipedia a big commercial project. They could have been dollar billionaires easily. But they preferred making Wikipedia independent (in their view). Of course, they did not know the hidden political map of the USA. And they luckily crossed the…
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How a real democracy and public affairs should look like
Constitution, congress, senate, old and senile Anglo-Saxon-looking politicians calling all day to lobbyists to get money for campaigns, movers-and-shakers, crooks, super-rich families and lodges. Social media, and mass media with their own agenda, would be politically incorrect stand-up shows. Endless feuds with power structures blocking each other to the detriment of citizens. Gerrymandering, voter suppression,…
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Global modern slavery. Why we don’t fight it? It serves well the super-rich
I have once a read book about background politics and the author said that the eminences had their moral compass back in time. Now they are sociopathic. People get fired from jobs and it is a huge negative consequence of capitalism, but being hooked on some drugs and beaten and tortured when you don’t fulfill…
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Halal, kosher. When animals feel unimaginable pain
I visited a Kebab Shop once. I politely asked what kind of meat it was, whether it was Halal or not. “We have beef, chicken and pork. All except pork is Halal.” I replied: “All right. I will have the pork then.” No problems so far. After eating, I found the vendor and said: “Well,…
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Why do famous persons with extremely high IQs never tell the number?
I have a page about IQ estimates of geniuses. But why the estimates? The persons involved must likely have taken an IQ test in their lifetimes (excluding those who didn’t have that opportunity because we had no clue about the “g factor” back then). We may say it is their privacy, but people tend to…
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Wikipedia as a health hazard! Never trust it with your health! I paid the heavy price because of their lousy and ridiculous featured article about schizophrenia
More than ten years ago, I suffered from delusions (I didn’t know these were delusions), cognitive impairment, depression and severe negative symptoms (lack of emotions, not enjoying anything). Since I had a turbulent relationship with my psychiatrist who also didn’t warn me about the possibility of having schizophrenia, I relied mainly on a featured article…
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Our moral system is extremely bad. Here are the facts
My atypical stance on human morality is given by books that are the best and the worst I have ever read. What kind of books? Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology. While the first one may be considered as a pseudoscience even though it bears a rational core and has thousands of rational claims that cannot…
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When the super-rich rule: The worst professions: politicians and journalists
Money, power, and fame. You may say that they chose it. But things are – as usual – more complicated. Since capitalism is in the absolute majority of examples ruling of the richest class, the super-rich groups (the puppet masters, the crony capitalists) are intertwined with journalists and politicians. You may say the super-rich own…