MIT Media Lab – Uncommon Descent

Science organizations continue to reel from Jeffrey Epstein “bombshells”

A MIT Media Lab director kept Epstein’s name off the records in such a way as to make it hard to claim they did not know there was a problem.

Seversky Racism is a human problem so it exists in the sciences, the arts, religion, all areas of human activity. We... – At The Scientist: Stuff about Darwinian...
mike1962 Seversky: "There is no point other than, perhaps, to make those diners feel a little less secure while dining out,... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
mike1962 Do algorithms create fundamentally different goals for "themselves?" (Don't bore me with templates, that's not fundamental.) – SwiftKey co-founder: Computers can’t just “evolve”...
Mac McTavish ET, making it the law and making it fully accepted are not the same thing. It is against the law... – Is the USA going over the...
ET Let them fire you for being gay: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that workers cannot be fired for being... – Is the USA going over the...
john_a_designer For over six months “BLM activists claim that Louisville police broke into Taylor’s apartment without warning. They claimed cops used... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Mac McTavish KF Once war was declared on family, lawful policing, courts, history etc, it became patent what we are dealing with... – Is the USA going over the...
Truthfreedom The Utter Failure of Materialism as a Worldview The ideology of scientific materialism became dominant in academia during the 20th... – Were the Nazis on the Right...
Truthfreedom 33 Kairosfocus The rise of Atheistical and hyperskeptical notions to dominance has wreaked havoc in uncountable ways, this is one... – Were the Nazis on the Right...
Truthfreedom 785 Kairosfocus You (Seversky) should be ashamed of yourself. Don't hold your breath. Seversky is handling the utter failure of... – Is the USA going over the...
Upright BiPed . Seversky at #10 How would you characterize the “Darwinian mindset”? Did I not make that clear in my post?... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Truthfreedom Seversky When are you going to condemn Darwin's disgusting white supremacism? Let me remind you hypocrite creature that your amoral... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Truthfreedom 23 Kairosfocus Seversky, you are enabling and excusing riot and SA bully-boy stormtrooper behaviour. Seversky is a good little marxist. – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
bornagain77 Moreover, as was alluded to in the preceding articles, the ‘plantonic perfection’ of a flat universe just so happens to... – Mathematicians debate the war on math
bornagain77 Ever since modern science was born in medieval Christian Europe, science has had a history of looking for ‘platonic perfection’,... – Mathematicians debate the war on math
kairosfocus Seversky, you are enabling and excusing riot and SA bully-boy stormtrooper behaviour. That tells us all we need to know.... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
kairosfocus Q, they will fail but will do incalculable damage in the US, while opening doors for geostrategic vultures. The world... – Were the Nazis on the Right...
kairosfocus Seversky, what rock have you been under these past months? There is always need for sound reformation, which is the... – Is the USA going over the...
johnnyb AaronS1978 - MM did an article here: https://mindmatters.ai/2020/09/can-ai-really-evolve-into-superintelligence-all-by-itself/ – Eric Holloway: Evolution and artificial intelligence...
ET seversky: At least those diners were not gunned down in a hail of police bullets in their own home like... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
ET From the first wikipedia biosemiotics reference: Biosemiotics: a new understanding of life Biosemiotics is the idea that life is based... – The smog is beginning to clear...