LaMDA
No of course not. This is what we call click-bait. You reading this right now: the best proof you are human. Yay! Watch Google's AI LaMDA program talk to itself at length (full conversation) - YouTube
Social Media inequality might become a bigger problem than wealth inequality. In a liberal society, it is easier to tax people than force them to have a certain taste and redistribute their likes and subscriptions. Yet social media inequality could become a source of immense frustration and a destabilizing factor once the world really moves ...
Kindergarten War
"There will always be bullies in the kindergarten", the teacher said, slapped Rudi hit Ukai in the face. - "But look, he has a bloody nose. Can we at least give him a band aid?" said a brave girl. "Quick, but don't make Rudi angry." Two children walked up to Ukai and gave her a ...
Open letter to the Russian Embassy
Dear Russian Embassy, As a Dutch citizen, I would like to express my explicit condemnation of the atrocities that the Russian Federation is currently conducting in Ukraine, as well as the attempts to deny these horrendous acts in the television program Buitenhof by your ambassador, Mr. Shulgin. My heart goes out to all the victims ...
Commoning with my daughter
O my 43th birthday, I took my bicycle to a nearby town to pick up a shovel that I had bought online. I was going to build a club house with my daughter, next to a small river on public land. We found two trees and a log that fit perfectly on the branches. We ...
Philosophy is a profession
"Everybody is a philosopher in their own way." Everybody is an artist in their own way. Everybody is a doctor in their own way. Everybody is a lawyer in their own way. Everybody is a pilot in their own way. Go fuck yourself in your own way.
Don’t think and work
The idea that you get paid for doing your own thinking (which I once regarded naively to be the job description of an academic philosopher). You can think anything, as long as... Your critical thinking is appreciated, provided that... There always has to be a forbidden door. And I am the kind of thinker that ...