Hong Kong – Uncommon Descent

Information: How can a totalitarian state be an information society?

China may be the biggest and most sophisticated experiment in history along those lines.

Artificial Intelligence Intellectual freedom Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism

Test: If naturalists are right, totalitarian states should be just as creative as free ones

A Chinese university is dumping intellectual freedom from their charters yet China hopes to be the world’s top AI power. Is there a contradiction here?

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