The Climate Singularity 1740 1160 Ayush Prakash

The Climate Singularity

The climate is a topic that has plagued classrooms, political debates, weekly news updates, and social media stories for many years. Towards the start of…

Ostracizing CRISPR Babies 2560 1822 Ayush Prakash

Ostracizing CRISPR Babies

CRISPR is a technology that can alter genetics. In his book Hacking Darwin, Jamie Metzl discusses the ethical implications of CRISPR. Specifically, what CRISPR or…

An Argument For God 2560 1707 Ayush Prakash

An Argument For God

Throughout the world, billions of people share a singular belief: outside of the Universe, an entity by the label of “God” exists in a place…

AI Free Will 2560 1920 Ayush Prakash

AI Free Will

The topic of free will has been an interest to many philosophers. From Nietzsche to Harris, free will has been discussed extensively concerning the primary…

Programmable Warfare 2560 1707 Ayush Prakash

Programmable Warfare

Wars have gone on since humans figured out how to use bones as weapons. The competitive and animalistic nature deep in our DNA causes our…

The Control Problem 2560 1706 Ayush Prakash

The Control Problem

The topic of superintelligence has tasked computer scientists and philosophers with the notorious question: how would we control a superintelligent entity? This question is flawed…

Iceberg Thinking 2560 1710 Ayush Prakash

Iceberg Thinking

Icebergs have many metaphors surrounding them. The main one associated is that things on the surface do not truly resemble the objective reality; the “tip…

The Bottleneck 2560 1670 Ayush Prakash

The Bottleneck

Modern humans have been around for ~200 000 years. In this time, humanity has faced numerous challenges to its survival such as disease, natural disasters,…

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