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20130523

Look at the bright side

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Human intelligence may be on the decline.

But then, machines are getting more intelligent.



So there is hope, still.

Look it up.

It's called causal entropy.
 
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Wait... Are you sure this film is PG rated?

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20130522

Brave New American Century

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Is this guy for real?

LOL

Oh my, my, me, my
Kindly would you reply
'Zat you Cass Sunstein?



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20130518

1,000,000 years

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Or so they say.



And 500 more.



But who is counting?
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Is there progress? According to "Arthur Koestler, for whom the human brain consisted of a little shop counter, ethical and rational (still very small), and a huge cerebral backroom, bestial, animal, territorial, charged with fears, irrationalities and murderous instincts. Millions of years would be needed, he said, for moral evolution to clear this brutal backroom."

http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/05/05/inenglish/1367755108_874316.html?rel=rosEP


The Enlightenment took humanity a giant step forward. But it's over eager optimism seems sad today. Both its glory and its naive failure. The nineteenth century was relatively peaceful in the west. But then the twentieth came, with its world wars. And the twenty-first started with Bush's absurd wars....... Let's hope it's not a "million years."
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20130514

This Just In

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Via The Borowitz Report in The New Yorker, via bloopie2 in The Guardian.

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